What is your current word count?

What is your current word count?

BLOG SESSION

April 11th, 2018

Good Morning Friends ~ This is another great Blog Session for all Writers, Authors, Poets, Creative Writers, Fiction Writers, Short Story Writers, Children's Book Writers, Film Writers, Scrip Writers, Journalists, Novelists, and all Friends working on writing projects this month in Camp NaNoWriMo.

If you were here for our last Blog Session then you were informed about how to find your word count in Microsoft Word (just in case you may have been wondering).

Now that many already know about word counters and how to find your wordcount on your writing programs, you will have an indication of just how close you are to the 50,000 word count (which constitutes the making of a Novel).

Today is April 11th.  By April 15th, you should be at the 25,000 word count mark.

So, just what is your word count at this point Writers, Novelists & Authors?

Don't worry if you are a little behind in your word count.  You can easily catch up!

See you back here for our next Blog Session. . .

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

What does being a Writer mean to you?

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

What does it mean to really let the Writer in you W R I T E? ~ Part 2

What does it mean to really let the Writer in you

W R I T E?

Part 2

BLOG SESSION

April 6th, 2018

Good Morning Writers, Authors, Poets, Novelists, Journalists, Script Writers, Film Writers, and emerging authors following along on our Blog today ~ If I left out the description that fits you, fear not ~ YOU are included.

Grab your Journal friends, because we're going to be discussing something that you'll want to keep close to your heart ~ it is about your Writing for the entire month of April during Spring Writer's Camp online...

Journal Notes ~ Spring Writing Camp

campnanowrimo.org

The most precious thing about writing during the month of April 2018 is that you will discover a new chapter of your life when you begin to work on your fabulous novel.  Today's Blog Session is all about letting the Writer in you really get busy working on the intended mission ... and what might that be?  You are intended to ~ WRITE!

Some of our friends following along are thinking about writing short stories during Spring Camp.  Others have a great Documentary in mind.  Then, there are a few here that would like to get started writing their Memoir.

Let us not forget that we have plenty of Film Writers amongst us, as well as Script Writers.  And, the poets amongst us are ready to put together their poetry collections during the month of April.

Writers working together online to get their

literary works competed during the month of April 2018.

If this is your first time participating in Camp NaNoWriMo online during Spring Camp, you are not alone, there are many other first time Camp Writers online.  Don't hesitate to ask questions that arise in your mind.  You can ask here on the Blog or once inside Camp . . .

If you have not yet picked your Genre, you'll want to get that out of the way.  If you are undecided about which genre fits your literary work, just take a moment to check out this simplified link to get a better idea of what Genres are out there...

Genres of Literature

Genres of Literature List

Pick our your Genre dear Writer,

and we'll be back with our next fantastic

BLOG SESSION!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

What does it mean

to really let the Writer

in you

W R I T E?

~ Part 3 ~

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

What does it mean to really let the Writer in you W R I T E?

What does it mean to really let the Writer in you

W R I T E?

BLOG SESSION

April 5th, 2018

Good Afternoon Writers, Authors, Novelists, Poets, Journalists, Memoirists, Artists, Diary Writers, Blog Readers, Followers & Visitors ~ Welcome back for another great Blog Session!

For all Writers here with us on the Blog today who have a desire to write a book or work on your latest Writing Project with other Authors online who are currently Participants joining Camp NaNoWriMo for the month of April, hopefully you have had a chance to look over the Site, and sign up to participate.

Writer thinking about what to write

for Camp NaNoWriMo ~ April 2018

If you are new to our Blog and are wondering what in the world we're talking about, we are talking about writing a book or working on a writing project online with other Writers, Authors, Poets, and those interested in writing and publishing books and literary works.  For the month of April, we are signing up to participate online during a time when all of us Writers get to writing ~ It is time for Spring Writer's Camp! 

If you have been following along with us here on the Blog, then you have your Journal full of interesting notes about Camp NaNoWriMo ~ the Writer's online Spring Camp event for the month of April.

Keeping notes about Spring Writer's Camp

Camp NaNoWriMo

Participants joining Camp NaNoWriMo for the first time will find the experience to be very interesting, refreshing, and different from the norm.  You'll get to meet others who have the same interest as you ~ Writing!

Friends, you are encouraged to not only explore the campnanowrimo site, but also to sign up (it's Free!) and get involved with the Forums and check your mailbox inside campnano once you have signed up.  Be sure to also explore your mind and find out what is inside of your brain waiting to be put to paper.

The question for everyone joining us here on the Blog today is this . . .

What does it mean to really let the writer in you W R I T E?

Are you suppressing the Writer in you?

If you have not yet written your Manuscript, play, film script, poetry collection, fiction novel, mystery novel, romance novel, documentary, memoir, biography, self-help book, comedy, or thriller -- why not?

Think Writer ~ t h i n k.

It is time for the Writer in you

to come out of the shadows and

W R I T E

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

What does it mean to really let the Writer in you

W R I T E?

Part 2

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

Camp NaNoWriMo ~ I started writing!

BLOG SESSION

April 4th, 2018

Good Afternoon Writers, Authors, Poets, Artists, Blog Readers, Followers, New Members to our Blog, and Visitors!

If you have just recently joined us this month to learn more about Camp NaNoWriMo ~ Welcome!  If you are a Writer, Author, emerging author, Poet, or interested in meeting other Writers and learning more about publishing your book, you are in the right place!

For those of you who are working on a writing project, or who have new book ideas that you'd like to get accomplished this year, the month of April is a good time to start working on what you'd like to see come to fruition.  Remember, Spring is the season when everything blooms and the air is fresh...and so is your mind!

"To be a good writer, an honest writer,

and a writer who actually writes,

it's important to reevaluate one's inhibitions."

~ Byran Hutchinson ~

From "Writer's Doubt" the book.

One thing about writing ~ You'll write your first Novel, and you'll wonder why you haven't written more.  You'll also find that writing is constantly on your mind.

Writing comes naturally to the destined Author!

Like those of you here who like to write poetry, you know how you sometimes grab a piece of paper to jot down the lines or thoughts that run through your mind during the day that make for a good poem?  It is the same for Writers, Authors and Novelists that love writing books.  It pays to also have a tape recorder or a smartphone that you can record your writing notes on.  Many a time you think you will not forget the thought that runs through your mind ~ and many a time you've been mistaken.  Be safe ~ write down your thoughts or record them for your next poem, book, play, song, film, documentary, speech, or any other literary work that you are working on.

Some of our friends here who have been following our Blog for a few years are already familiar with Camp NaNoWriMo ~ which is an offspring of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) ~ wherein Writers get together each year during the month of November and write a Novel or a Writing Project in 30 (thirty) days.  To learn more about the site where Writers get online to work on their Novels in 30 days, click on the NaNoWriMo link above.  If you have not yet participated during the month of November, now is a good time to sign up and review the Site for this year's November Writing frenzy online.

Review the Site and be ready when

November 2018 rolls around.

For those who have never written a Novel ~ a Novel constitutes about fifty-thousand (50,000) words or more.  If this seems like a lot to you, (if you have never written that many words before), it really isn't.  Once you do it the first time, it is a breeze to do so again, and again, and again!  You'll never know how it feels to write a Novel if you never try to write one of your own.

Books are exciting reads ~ especially when you are the Author.  

Fear not Author!

For today, just make sure that you sign up to participate in Camp NaNoWriMo, and fill out all of the necessary items that we discussed yesterday...

1)  Complete your Profile;

2)  Create your writing project (book title or project title);

3)  Select your Cabin preference;

4)  Review all the areas of the Site; and

5)  Don't forget to check your campnonowrimo mailbox once

      you've signed up!

If you've already starting writing and are working on your Novel or Writing Project ~ Good for you!  Be sure to set a daily goal of how many words you'd like to accomplish.  Check in with your Cabin mates if you are in a Cabin with others.  Also check out the Camp NaNo Forums by clicking on this link.

We'll be back here tomorrow with more information for you, so be sure to check in.  You can also sign up to follow our Blog by email (if you have not done so already), by looking over in the far right-hand column under my eyeball to enter in your email address then click the "Submit" button, and you will receive each of our Blog Sessions as soon as they are published.

Get excited Authors ~ this is going to be a lot of FUN!

Don't be scared ~ you can do it!

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

   

More insight about CampNaNoWriMo!

More insight about CampNaNoWriMo!

BLOG SESSION

April 3rd, 2018

Welcome back Authors, Novelists, Journalists, Writers, Poets, emerging authors, Artists, Blog Readers, Followers, Friends & Visitors!

We are here this evening to get back to learning more about CampNaNoWriMo.  Please click on the link if you have not yet visited the Spring Writer's Camp and/or signed up to get started with writing your book or working on your Writing Project during the month of April 2018.

If you were here for our last Blog Session, then you have plenty of notes in your Journal about getting started with writing your book online (for free) in a wonderful Writer's Spring Camp that many of us are familiar with.  Camp NaNoWriMo is the off-spring of NaNoWriMo ~ which stands for "National Novel Writer's Month" -- which takes place every November.

Writers get together online to work on their Novels, Books, Short Stories, Poetry, and Writer's Projects during Camp in the Spring and Summer online.  You're encouraged to check it out if you have always wanted to write a book but may not have quite known how to get inspired to do so.  Just make a note in your Journal that there are plenty of other Writers and established Authors online working on their book projects during Camp NaNoWriMo in both the Spring (April) and Summer (July).  While there are many sites that you can check out if you are a Writer looking for a place to work on your Novel or Writing Project, we're focusing on Camp NaNoWriMo at this time.  We're particularly interested in focusing on Camp NaNoWriMo at this time because the month of April has just begun, and now we can all get started writing for the month of April together with other Writers.

You'll enjoy the Camp -- you can pick your Cabin once you have signed up to participate.  Cabins are Camp NaNoWriMo's version of a writing group.  Up to 20 writers can bunk together in a virtual cabin to create a personal writing community.  Doesn't that sound like fun!?

You can also choose to be part of a Cabin by being sorted into a public cabin, or by creating or being invited into a private cabin.

Learn more about Camp NaNoWriMo Cabins by clicking here...

Camp NaNoWriMo Cabins -- Knowledge Base 

NOTE:  To join a cabin, make sure you’ve:

1.  Created a Writing Project for the current session of Camp, and

2.  Filled out your Profile.

3.  Then, be sure to set your preferences on the Cabin Settings page...

If you want to be sorted into a cabin randomly, select the “Surprise me with random cabin mates!” option and click “Submit.”

If you want to be sorted into a cabin with writers that share similar interests, select “I’m looking for campers that match specific criteria.”

Then, you’ll be able to request cabin mates within your age group, writing in your genre, and/or with similar word-count goals.  Once you’ve selected all the preferences you’d like, click “Submit”.

Cabin assignments begin shortly before the start of the event, and will continue throughout the month of April on a rolling basis.

There is a lot more to go over in relation to Camp NaNo, so be sure to join us back here for our next Blog Session!

Start taking notes about your Novel

Be sure to leave your thoughts, insight, or any questions in our "Comments Section" at the end of any of our Blog posts.  If you are NEW to working online with your book writing, you may have some questions that you'd like to share here or online in Camp.  Once you sign up, remember you can . . .

• Complete your writing project in a month 
• Track your progress
• Get online support
• The best thing is ~ It is Free to participants!
• Also, it is 100% fun ~ and worth checking out (smiles)

See you in our next Blog Session, and/or over in Camp NaNoWriMo!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

Time to get ready for Writer's Camp! (April 2018)

Time to get ready for

Writer's Camp!

(April 2018)

BLOG SESSION

April 1st, 2018

Good Afternoon Writers, Authors, Novelists, Poets, emerging authors, Journalists, and all creative writers who are preparing to write something amazing...

We Writers are getting ready to participate in the wonderful place for Writers who are focused on their book writing, Memoirs, Biographies, poetry, and other Writing Projects.  The place that I am referring to is online, and it is called Camp NaNoWriMo.

For those of you who are really ready to get into your writing now that Spring is here, Camp NaNoWriMo is the place for you!

Springtime, (during the month of April 2018), we Writers will be busy cranking out our next interesting Novel.  What about you?  Will you be participating at Camp NaNoWriMo in the virtual world?  If you plan to write your first book, your next book, or work on a Writing Project, the month of April is a good time for you to get online and get busy creating your next masterpiece.  All you have to do if you have never participated before at Camp NaNo is to click on the link and sign up!  It is free, and it is FUN!

For those of you who have participated during the month of November in previous years ~  (November is National Novel Writing Month) online at:   NaNoWriMo.org ~ you will have an idea of what writing a Novel in 30 days is all about.  During Camp online at Campnanowrimo.org, we'll be doing the same thing we do during the month of November.  At Camp, you have the freedom to write whatsoever you desire, and it doesn't have to be a Novel.  You can write a poetry book, a Memoir, a Biography, a Research Project, or any other Writing Project that you are interested in creating.

There is a lot to talk about when it comes to Camp NaNo, so before we really get into more details, just click on the link and sign up . . .

CAMPNaNoWriMo.org

Be sure to join us back here for more details and writing tips after you have signed up for Camp!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

More about . . .

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

The Writer's Comfort Levels ~ PART 17 ~ "Disgust"

The Writer's Comfort Levels

PART 17

"Disgust"

BLOG SESSION

February 14th, 2018

We are back for our regularly Scheduled Blog Session about our 17th emotion, which is "Disgust" as it relates to The Writer's Comfort Levels.

If you are a Writer, Author, Novelist, Journalist, Film Writer, Poet,  Playwright, Diary Writer, Short Story Writer, or if you are working on a book, or a Writing Project that you'd like to publish, then you are in the right place!

Be sure to Bookmark your new Blogspot if you are new here, and sign up to "Follow by Email" over in the far right-hand column under my eyeball, then be sure to click the "Submit" button after you have entered in your email address.  You will promptly receive all Blog Sessions immediately upon publication and you will then be able to read them from your email box at your leisure.

We all bring our Journals when we read our Sessions so that we may take notes.  If you do not have a nice Journal to write your notes in, just grab a notebook or notepad that you have available to take your notes until you can purchase a dedicated Journal that you like just for our Sessions.

Journal Notes

Whenever you are working on the personalities of the various characters in your stories, then you are well aware of the various feelings and emotions that come into play.  Each character in your story will of course have their own background.  The life of each of your characters is compiled of events, situations, circumstances, difficulties, people, family members, friends, co-workers, life problems, and in some cases tragedies and deep hurts.  Please make a special note that "feelings" and "emotions" always come into view.

As you develop your characters, consider their life story.  What have they been through in life thus far, and how have the events in their life affected them?  What kind of emotional state are they in?  What type of feelings are they harboring?

Writer's Exercise for Today

Take a moment to think about your life.  For today's exercise, please make a note of your feelings today in relation to the state of your life.  In your Journal, write today's date and our Session title:  "The Writer's Comfort Levels" ~ Part 17 ~ "Disgust".

Now, after writing down how you are honestly feeling today, take a second to just list the various emotions you are feeling.  As a point of reference, We have covered sixteen (16) emotions prior to today's Blog Session.  To review all twenty-one emotions that we are covering, click here.  Any number of the emotions listed may be exactly what you are feeling today.

After listing all of the emotions that you may be feeling today, just simply take a second to think on a time when you have personally felt the emotion of disgust.

Disgust is a feeling of revulsion or profound disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.

Other words that bring to mind the feeling of "disgust" are...

revulsion

repugnance

aversion

distaste

distasteful

abhorrence

loathing

detestation

odium

execration

horror

nausea

yuck factor

disrelish

repellence

repellency

revolt

repel

sicken

nauseate

squick

gross

outrage

shock

horrify

appall

scandalize

offend

affront

dismay

displease

dissatisfy

annoy

anger

nauseate

turn someone's stomach

make someone want to throw up

make shudder

cause to feel nauseous

make someone's gorge rise

be repugnant to

be repulsed by

turn off

Please Note:  All of the above listed words are in the same emotional area of our emotion for today, which is "disgust".

Revisiting the emotion of "disgust"

After you have written down in your Journal about the time when you felt the feeling of "disgust", sit with that feeling for about five minutes.  Run the actual incident through you mind that brought the emotion of "disgust" to the forefront.

Now, imagine that you are creating a character who has to exhibit the feeling of "disgust" in your story.  Write a sample paragraph for the sake of practice.  You may find it helpful to create a character that is actually telling the story through your own eyes.  Descriptive of what you felt when you had the emotion of "disgust" running through your veins, you will find it easy to write.  You'll also find it easy to build a story around this one character that you are creating and writing a paragraph about.

We have four (4) more emotions to cover after this Blog Session.  Those four emotions are as follows...

18)  Shock

19)  Kindness

20)  introversion (personality)

21)  extroversion (personality)

We'll be back for another great Blog Session tomorrow!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

The Writer's Comfort Levels

PART 18

"Shock"

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved