Blue Heron Spotting, Armistice Day
Can you spot the Blue Heron in the feature photo above?
This is my third attempt to get this post published. It’s Friday evening in West Michigan and a chilly one.
The NaNoWriMo 50k word challenge continued as I got over the halfway hump logging in more than 25,000 words.
The protagonists moved the story forward with unexpected twists and turns.
To be continued due to technical difficulties.
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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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Rising moon over the cornfields
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Stay tuned for these stories in the upcoming issue of the Lowell Ledger
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.
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.
Go to http://moraviansonsdistillery.com
Mission accomplished. I grabbed my newspaper hat and wrote about Milo’s Kids Consignment & Boutique.
On my way back home, I caught the moon rising. Of course there’s no time for TV. I like it that way.
Good night.
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The wind picked up in the afternoon blowing leaves and sweeping my gardens, so I skipped the daily walk..
I am definitely a morning writer through and through no question about it. Whatever I don’t get done by 1 p.m. doesn’t get done. Even the characters in my stories know that. They stop cooperating.
I logged in 2,063 words and I am sending the protagonists off into the unknown, not without a fight, both in the story and real worlds.
Our son Jake with his family came over to work in our Moravian Sons Distillery. This is our second production season. First, Jake and Ludek had to unload the non-pasteurized apple cider from Hill Bros Cider Mill in Sparta, our major supplier. It was a total of 450 gallons of sweet and tart apple cider that will turn into hard cider.
To read more go to http://moraviansonsdistillery.com
Back to my writing marathon as the uphill roller coaster climb continues. I decided to stick with the roller coaster plotting method for now.
Each day of NaNoWriMo is completely different.
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Tune in to these spring and summer episodes during National Novel Writing Month, and keep climbing the NaNo roller coaster to the peak. I moved it up the steep hill with a jerk declaring ‘Singapore is Ours.’
Whether you’re a participant or not in the 50k-word challenge, catch up with spring and summer authors, still coming author Chris Stark and NaNoWriMo Halfway.
Nov. 3 Nikki Mitchell, Nightshade Forest
Nov. 10 Mikel Classen, True Tales
Nov. 17 NaNoWriMo 2022 halfway episode with authors Emma Palova, Jean Davis, and Vera West
Nov. 24 Reader of the Year, nominee, Diana Duell
Nov. 30 Kristoffer Gair, The Beautiful Moment
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Even though the clouds moved in, we still held onto the upper 60s with rain in the afternoon. The November weather definitely made its mark on the start of NaNoWriMo.
Like on a real roller coaster, I pushed the story forward with a jerk to the ‘Singapore is Ours’ declaration by the protagonists and left it with a new chapter opened. I logged in 2020 words. Again I like the number, but I wish I could have pulled off more.
I am going to flip back to the beat sheet plotting method rather than the roller coaster, which is more like a labyrinth. This morning it led me to these dead-end streets and side streets.
In my other role as a journalist, I am working on a story about a hometown salon celebrating its 10th anniversary. The salon survived the Covid horror and competition from other salons.
You can buy my books locally at Shabby Chicnanigans next to Curtis Cleaners and Bettie’s Pages on Main Street just in time for holiday shopping.
Thanks Michelle.
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In case you missed this summer episode with author Nikki Mitchell about her Nightshade Forest release.
Enjoy.
