Emma Palova, born in Czech Republic, is an author, a writer, a screenwriter, a journalist, a photographer, a designer and the founder of Emma Blogs, LLC, based in Lowell, Michigan.
Currently, she is working on her memoir "Greenwich Meridian" which she intends to turn into a screenplay.
Palova started her blog EW Emma's Writings at http://emmaplova.com in support of the publication of her memoir in January, 2013.
The blog has grown into a passion and a company that designs blogs for other people under the umbrella of Emma Blogs.
Palova is a prolific online publisher open to new ideas and to new horizons. A natural innovator, Palova loves to create progressive brands into the future. Check out her inspirational post "Desert epiphany" and the authors page on About_me and on Facebook.
I am looking forward to seeing you around the greater Grand Rapids area and on my blog.
I am seeking an agent or a publisher for the memoir that I intend to publish for my mom Ella's 80 birthday on Aug. 23.
I celebrated my fourth anniversary on the WordPress publishing platform on Jan. 15th, 2017 with more than 1,000 followers and 500 plus posts.
Love always,
Emma
NaNoWriMo authors Jean Davis, Vera West, and host of For the Love of Books Podcast Emma Palova take you through the first half of the 50K writing challenge in this special episode. Their combined total log-in was just under 80,000 words.
Find out what they did to reach their writing goals on their journeys to publishing new books in 2023. Keep on writing past the challenge, and make it a daily habit, these experts say.
Watch for their books in 2023.
So listen in and jump on the NaNoWriMo roller coaster, because you can’t edit a blank page.
It’s a big day in Michigan. Today is the opening day of the firearm hunting season that will run through the end of November. Stay tuned for details.
A Big Day for Wrimos
We’ve reached the halfway point on the NaNoWriMo roller coaster. Listen in to the special podcast episode with experts Jean Davis, Emma Palova and Vera West.
No, smooth sailing through these two days filled with focused writing. After I got over the halfway hump on Friday and Saturday, the ride on the NaNo 50k word roller coaster got bumpier.
It must have coincided with the drop in temperatures in West Michigan as we chilled down, and the skies got cloudy. Our driveways are now lined with stakes with snow in the forecast.
So I introduced the Tower of Breese into the story about the search for a lost town. That helped to further establish the enemy. However, I got stuck again on Monday morning and added another layer to one of the protagonists deepening the conflict.
What’s the next step? The protagonist has several options and doesn’t know which road to take. I should map it out for him on the beat sheet plotting method.
Christmas through Lowell 2022
Setting records this year the tour has 61 locations and I am on one of them, station k on the CTL tour map aka Lowell Area Historical Museum in downtown Lowell located at 325 W. Main Street.
In my other role as a reporter for The Lowell Ledger, I wrote like crazy on a Sunday afternoon about the upcoming Christmas through Lowell tour this weekend, Nov. 18 through Nov. 20.
Christmas through Lowell, Nov. 18 through Nov. 20
In my role as the Director of Operations for Moravian Sons Distillery, I am going to our first meeting of the Michigan Craft Distillers Association at DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids. I am psyched. There will be a bunch of other distillery newcomers.
In another role yet as the producer and host of For the Love of Books Podcast, we will bring you insights in the special episode “Breaking Point” about getting halfway through NaNoWriMo.
I can’t wait for authors Jean Davis and Vera West to share their insights because you can still jump on the NaNo ride.
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We’re chilling in West Michigan all the way down to 38F with snow in the forecast. That meant no break between the two writing sessions outside on the trail. I switched to the treadmill by the stairway.
We’re halfway there on the NaNoWriMo roller coaster 50k word challenge and rocking it. I climbed over the hump yesterday with the help of the protagonists looking for the Lost Town of Singapore.
Instead of Singapore, they found a strange city on the Dream Waterway connecting two lakes.
The upcoming special episode of For the Love of Books Podcast will feature authors Emma Palova, Jean Davis, and Vera West sharing their experience from this year’s National Novel Writing Month 50k word challenge.
Don’t miss out, because you can still win the challenge if you jump on the ride now.
Likely the last 70-degree day this season, so I got right on it writing in two sessions: in the early morning session, I took a walking break to the Franciscans, then I wrote more for a total of 2,426 in the late morning session. I had to wrap it up after the second break at the Arrowhead Golf Course. My brain refused to function anymore. I stuffed myself with a nut mix and chocolates.
I drove back home through the orchards that always calm me down.
The story is on its way to the first big surprise nearing the top of the first climb on the roller coaster plotting method.
The word total since the challenge started on Nov. 1 is 22,570 words. I wish I could have written more, but the body and the mind are smarter than I am and stopped me.
Today, we’re stilling peaches from Mason Apple Orchards in Belding. Thank you, my friend, Lynn. This is the third stilling run of the season.
To be continued…
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It was an awesome writing day split into two sessions. I logged in 3,277 words for a total of more than 20, OOO words. I am working on a sequel to The Lost Town.
ChristmasthroughLowell
In my other role as a newspaper woman, watch for the upcoming story about Christmas through Lowell featuring vendors and artists in The Lowell Ledger.
I will be on the tour as well inside the Lowell Area Historical Museum in the industrial room with my books from the Shifting Sands Series plus the Konecny Family memoir.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to meet a local author and shop for lovely gifts.
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It’s a big day today that started off with the total lunar eclipse of the moon known as the bloodied moon. We can see the next one in three years.
The Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
Blood moon, Lunar eclipse
NaNoWriMo Day 8
I started writing at 8 a.m. and moved the adventure further ahead after flipping back to the beat sheet method. After the lunch break on the trail, I wrote in the afternoon logging in 3,217 words for a total of 16, 867. I wish I could have written more. But it is what it is. Grateful for this productive day.
Morning effects
General Election Nov. 8
Now we’re getting ready to vote at our brand new township hall. And then it’s Taco Tuesday or Mardi Taco; we haven’t decided on a specific joint yet. It seems like all the local restaurants got away with Taco Tuesdays.
Done at 6:22 p.m on a beautiful Tuesday evening. I voted as the 776th voter in the overcrowded Vergennes Township hall. The rewards were excellent at Ripple on the Flat in downtown Lowell. We had Midwest tacos and I had a Cochinita taco with a Hemingway cocktail.
Delicious.
Have you voted yet?
Voting in Vergennes Township.General election 2022
All in a day’s work.
Feature photo: Morning above our tree line.
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In the first week of NaNo, Day 7 I logged in a total of 13,650 words. On top of that, I wrote for the Lowell Ledger logging in 1,841 words with stories about Milo’s Consignment, Station Salon Celebrates 10th Anniversary and the Lowell Arts Artist Market. That would put me at 15, 491 more like my buddies. Writing is writing, my buddy Diana says.
Lowell Ledger stories gallery for Nov. 9
Stay tuned for these stories in the upcoming issue of the Lowell Ledger
Tori RunstromNancy DeBoerJanet Teunis
In the NaNoWriMo 50k word challenge, we met our nemesis on the first climb of the roller coaster plotting method. I am still thinking about switching to the 15-beat sheet method, but on the other hand, I like the tension of the unknown.
Blast from my communist past in former Czechoslovakia
Nov. 7 was another mandatory holiday, when we paraded with lanterns in the streets of Gottwaldov, now Zlin, to celebrate the Soviet holiday of their October revolution known as VRSR.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia. I will write more about this when I have time.
The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution or (according to the communists themselves) the Great October Socialist Revolution,[2] abbreviated VŘSR or Great October, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, following the February Revolution.
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It was sunny, in the 60s in November in West Michigan. Unbelievable. I logged in 2, 073 words and moved the story further up the first climb on the roller coaster. We chugged upwards looking for the arch nemeses. We haven’t found them yet. They’re lurking somewhere
The gospel was about Jesus’ major nemeses, the Sadducees. Interesting tricksters they were. Enough to inspire me.
After the morning stretch of NaNo writing, I switched hats to get some bisulphate and cuvet yeast for the apple cider that we hauled in on Friday from our supplier Hill Bros in Sparta.
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