NaNoWriMo 2012

Doing It Again!

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Yes, I am doing it again! I am out traveling in the world wide web! If you have clicked over from citychickinthecountry.com, welcome over to Tickled Pink Tammy! Over here I try to live, well, Tickled Pink! I try to find some encouragement and most definitely humor every day in this big bad thing we all call life. I am glad you clicked over!

Back at the end of October, I traveled to Harrisburg, PA for a Bloggers Conference. I have not sat down and spilled onto cyber paper all of my thoughts and experiences just yet as I have been busy every day since November 1. No really…I have been posting over on Facebook what I have been up to. I have been participating in a national writing program, that I found out about the very last week of November last year. I decided to stay connected so I could maybe try it for November 2012. And I did!

It is call NaNoWriMo. Cute ring to it, eh? It stands for National Novel Writing Month. The purpose is to write everyday from November 1 to November 30 with the goal of reaching 50,000 words. Of course, if I could “talk” that goal, I would have most definitely been done by midnight. Midnight of November 1st that it!

But alas, we were to type or write and enter in our word counts each day. Just so you know, if your curiosity is killing you…I hit 50, 027 words last night at 11:43 PM! I got them entered before midnight and it quickly popped up a page that said:

WINNER!

Needless to say, I did not “win” anything except for bragging rights that I completed a 50,000+ word novel in a month. But…now the real work begins as I start the process to finish it up and tweak it by doing some editing. Know what I did though? I have already lined up my editor for January, so she can help me “fix” it! Hey, I’m not dumb–I know I’ll need some help!  Do you need an editor? Well, I might be an only child–but I do share! You’ll love her. She has helped me a lot this year with my writing and I am sure you will be pleased as well.  You can find her here: christianeditor.net. She’s fantastic! I don’t get any kick-backs, but if you mention, Tickled Pink Tammy, I am pretty sure she will have a little extra special something for you! Check her out!
In the meantime though, while not being here with all of you, I have been out traveling so to speak in bloggy land as well as the NaNoWriMo. Today in fact I was with one of my friends that I met in conjunction with the bloggers’ conference back in October. The fun part is that through the Facebook page for Allume newbies, I have been talking with her way before the conference and I have even guest posted over at her site before! (Ah! And she even let me come back!!!) 
I shared a little something from the conference over at her site today. To find it, click on these colored letters!  Thanks Donna, for allowing me to visit on your page in your little corner of cyber world! It was a blast!
…and that’s all I have to say about that!
Tammy

Happy Saturday!

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How goes it in your part of the world?  It’s been a blur of activity around our little part of the world. We have a lot of things going on in our family, and a big announcement that we have not been able to say until now!  NO – it’s not what your thinking!

Anyway…focus back over here…

As I’ve shared before, we are three only children in our household.  Recently, our one and only has accepted a position with a promotion to another university. We are thrilled to pieces for her and yet, sad for us. The three of us are very close and she will now be 9-10 hours away. No more, “hey, wanna go get dinner? Do you want to go shopping?” That will be a little difficult that far away. The positive side of it, we now have a new getaway destination! Since she’s moving south and closer to the ocean–we’re trying to focus our thoughts on those things!

Yet, this Mama’s heart is having a hard time letting her go. As much as I want this for her, it saddens me to know she’s that far away. I would appreciate your prayers on that!

In other news, I have been sharing about the writing project, NaNoWriMo,  I have been doing this November. It has made me write every day with the goal of 50,000 words by November 30.  I have joked a lot about the fact that if I could talk it, I would have been done by November 2 at noon! My mom always said I had diarrhea of the mouth, it just runs and runs. So I could have long been done.  I know there are programs out there where you talk your words into your computer, but I’m quite sure they would not have been able to keep up! But that’s what I have been up to this month.

I also have acquired a whole bunch of new books that I am looking forward to sharing with you.  So, beginning in January, I am planning a monthly giveaway package, so make sure you watch for those!

I haven’t shared yet all my thoughts on my recent trip to the blogger conference I went to, but I will be sharing about that soon! Gotta get this 50,000 words done first! I will share one little tidbit though. The conference made me realize how much I love doing this blog and sharing thoughts back and forth with all of you.  It’s been a great way to connect and make so many new friends all across the country. While at the conference in Pennsylvania, I was able to meet so many blogger friends as well, ladies that I have talked to for months. Now THAT made me “Tickled Pink”! I was so blessed to be able to connect with so many of these ladies I have met through Better Writer, Better Blogs and Allume Newbies on Facebook — “hey girls!”

As we head into this week of Thanksgiving, I hope you will stop and think of a huge list of things to be thankful for. I have a huge list started and I have been trying to add to it the whole month.  But one of the things I am very thankful for is you. Yes, you! I am thankful to each of you for popping in, or getting my posts dropped in your e-mail inbox or are on Networked Blogs with me. I am thankful that you take a little time out of your busy day to read my musings for the moment. From my heart…Thank You!

So that’s some of the stuff happening over in my neck of cyber world – what’s been happening in your part of the world?  Share a comment below.  You might want to try doing that more often to get used to it…come January, you just might be rewarded for doing so! Jus’ sayin’!

…and that’s all I have to say about that!

Happy Thankgiving, Y’all!

Tammy

Look What’s Out My Window!

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Yo Yo!  I have missed chatting with all you bloggy friends over the last couple weeks.  I’ve had a lot of real cool things going on, so I thought I would spend just a few minutes this morning catching up on a few things that I can talk about at this point!

I did make it to my scheduled trip to the Allume Conference back on October 25-27.  It was a blur of a weekend with meeting up with cyber friends, sessions, meeting up with friends, sessions, giggling up with friends….. Anyhow – it was a quick weekend, but full of fun things, but that post will come another time as I’m still sorting out the stuff!

I am thick into a writing project called NaNoWriMo at the present time, which is taking more time that I thought it would – but I have to say I am having an absolute blast.  What’s NaNoWriMo you ask? Don’t worry, I get that reaction every time I say it!  It’s National Novel Writing Month.  For the 30 days of November, the writer is to write every day throwing away all the rules and just write, write, write, with the end goal being 50,000 words!  Yup, that is a 50 with three zeros behind it!  You have to log in everyday for it to count, but you do not have daily word count requirements.  Whew, good thing!  Yesterday was a fast paced, weird kinda day and I only managed to push for 641 words. My new total is 12,718 – leaving 37,282 to go! No problem. I am really having a blast at it.  So, once I hit November 30th, I can say a wrote a draft for a novel in November 2012 for the NaNoWriMo project.  It’s bragging rights, folks! Come December, it’s edit, edit, edit! I have already hinted at my editor at christianeditor.net that I will be having something coming!

Oh, while I’m on that subject…for those of you who are writers that follow along on my blog, if you don’t already have an editor, or are not pleased with the one you have, I’d love to share my editor with you. (Really, I do share!) You can find Niccol at christianeditor.net.  Pssst:  can I tell you a secret?  If you mention that “Tickled Pink Tammy” sent you, she will give you 10% off any of her services through December 31st!  Jus’ sayin’!

Anyway…with the yucky rain we have had for most of the last two plus weeks, it’s been so hard to write.  I felt that my writing would be yucky, kinda like the weather!  Though I have been doing the Nano thing, Tickled Pink hasn’t been on here.  And then today came and I’m sitting at my office in my hubby’s massage office and this is what I looked out the window to see:

Can you believe it?! It’s a beautiful blue sky and super sunny.  In Ohio, gang…OH. I. O! And it’s a balmy 45*.  Almost time for flip-flops! Which gave me words to do more writing.  And, to pop in here and say — YO!

…and that’s all I have to say about that!

So…what have y’all been up to while I was away?  Please share, I’d love to know and I guess I’m a little nosy as to what’s going on in your part of the world!!

Tammy