Insomnia Rocks ~ Sometimes.

In times of NaNoWriMo I love my insomnia... it's day 5 for me and I'm hoping to reach 40K ~ currently I'm at 36K. With my insomnia the wee hours of the morning are my favourite time to write as I have a very quiet house all to myself. Instead of putting on a light, I just attach my kindle lamp to my Surface Pro 3 and sit in the dark and let my imagination have free reign.

Later I also want to try and write 4K on The Freedomers 1: Zephania's Chance, but the cricket starts today at 9am  at the Gabba in Brisbane, so I'm not promising anything.

Galley Proof

This morning, or in reality some time in the middle of the night I received Galley Proof on Hidden Hearts 1: Harder & Harder To Breathe... So in the wee hours of this morning I did them and sent them back to the amazing Kathy K at Fireborn publishing... I can't wait for you to all read this as a prequel to the once published and now heavily rewritten and extended HH 2: One Last Kiss Goodbye.

In NaNoWriMo I'm hoping to reach 30K today. I need to get NaNo done as quickly as possible so that I can concentrate on finishing writing the last 2 books for 2015:

The Freedomers 1: Zephania's Chance

The Connelly Chronicles 2: Beautiful Goodbyes

NaNo Update.

I've locked myself away writing like crazy for NaNoWriMo... In two days I made it to 15K and I'm hoping to make it to 23K today. 

Why am I writing this way? I hear you ask.

The answer is simple: because I still have four books to get finished by the end of the year... It will bring me in at one book under what I had hoed to get done by the end of the year. Sadly life got in the way and I spent quite a few months not writing at all. this last three months has been getting me into practice for next year, and everything I'd like to accomplish.

NaNoWriMo Has Begun

The start of the

50,000 Words.

So Fricken Tired...

Okay so we had to be up at 2am to drive the hubs into the Brisbane International Airport. He had to be there by 4am... because his flight out was 6am to New Zealand. So, I've been up for 8 hours after only having 2 hours sleep. My brain is a totally mess.

Though I do have some good news out of the 210,000 words I needed to complete the 1(30K) + 2 (40K) novellas + 1 (100K) novel by the end of the year.... I only have 121,124 words left to go... So I'm well and truly on track to getting everything done... Fingers crossed it stays that way.

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow and I can't wait... So I might be a little hit and miss with posting over the next month. Though, I'll try and keep everyone updated on how I'm doing.

Just Another Ramble

Yeah I know... I ramble a lot... I can't help it there is so much going on in my head that I just need to get it all out... so here goes: 7 things you really didn't want to know, but I'm telling you anyway... Sharing is caring--or so they tell me.

1) The hubs flies back to New Zealand tomorrow, and I'm happy to report that he got most of the jobs done that needed doing... I'm going to miss him (I think) at least until he comes back and I realise I have o share the queen sized bed again.

2) Emily is at her last tutoring session for the year... she starts her exams in a week and a half for Uni... then is off until about March of next year.

3) Ethan informs me he only has 4 weeks of school left before he's on school holidays... next year he's into year 10 and becomes a senior. I'm so proud of the progress he has made in the year he has been living with us.

4) I've been dealing with the dreaded taxes, and I'm hoping like hell My Accountants get onto EOY 2015 so that I'll finally be up to date. I've said it before and I'll probably say it many more times in the future... I hate dealing with the taxes... at least after EOY 2016 I won't have to deal with company taxes any more, because my hubs will be doing all of that in New Zealand.

5) The hubs will be in NZ for Christmas this year... he hasn't had a Christmas with his family since 2009. But we'll see him not long afterward. Us here at home will have a quite Christmas day... we usually have our bog family Christmas around the 20th of December and that one will be loud as hell.

6) I've also been organising my 2016... I know it is all subject to change at the drop of a hat, but I'm trying to teach the kids the value of money by making them (all of us really) stick to a family budget. so we have to try and factor everything in. Not sure how long it's going to last so keep your fingers crossed. I'm thinking at 15 & 25 they should be able to grasp the concept.

7) I'm also making sure that I set the required amount of time aside each day to meet the word quota  (2,138 a day to be able to write 1 Million words/20 (40K) novellas & 2 (100K) novels) for the 2016 writing challenge I have with the awesome Penny Brandon. Wish me luck...OR... kick my arse if I start falling behind.

Finished & Sent Back

Yesterday and today I did the Galley on The Lines of Marsden 3: You Make Me Die In Pieces... I've sent it back to the wonderful Kris J in the formatting department at MLRPress.

I'm now back onto getting as much done on my last 4 books as possible. I want to free up as much time as possible in November for NaNoWriMo so I complete it again this year. Fingers crossed nothing pops up to screw things up for me.

I promise to keep you all updated on how I am going on the rest of my 2015 writing schedule.