Active Verbs

I had so much fun making the random lists of nouns that I thought it would be interesting to do 100 verbs in the present participle. And when I make the list on Pinterest to illustrate all these it's going to be a great quest. Add some of these words to  your Nanowrimo novel or your poetry or your short stories. I love seeing what types of photos come up on Pinterest when I type in each keyword on my list. Follow along on Pinterest as I add more.

Verb List

1.      Absorbing

2.      Acting

3.      Asking

4.      Bathing

5.      Blending

6.      Blowing

7.      Bowing

8.      Bowling

9.      Buffeting

10.   Building

11.   Bumping

12.   Caring

13.   Clapping

14.   Climbing

15.   Cuddling

16.   Dancing

17.   Debating

18.   Ducking

19.   Dunking

20.   Eating

21.   Evicting

22.   Exiting

23.   Fighting

24.   Filming

25.   Floating

26.   Galloping

27.   Gambling

28.   Glittering

29.   Golfing

30.   Grinning

31.   Gunning

32.   Healing

33.   Helping

34.   Holding

35.   Hunting

36.   Illuminating

37.   Infecting

38.   Insulting

39.   Juggling

40.   Jumping

41.   Kissing

42.   Kite Flying

43.   Knitting

44.   Laughing

45.   Leaning

46.   Punching

47.   Leaving

48.   Lecturing

49.   Levitating

50.   Lounging

51.   Loving

52.   Mimicking

53.   Moaning

54.   Napping

55.   Nodding

56.   Noting

57.   Planking

58.   Playing

59.   Pondering

60.   Prancing

61.   Procrastinating

62.   Programming

63.   Pumping

64.   Quarantining

65.   Researching

66.   Running

67.   Sailing

68.   Scooping

69.   Sewing

70.   Shading

71.   Shielding

72.   Shifting

73.   Shimmying

74.   Shooting

75.   Showering

76.   Singing

77.   Skiing

78.   Sleeping

79.   Slipping

80.   Sneaking

81.   Snowboarding

82.   Snuggling

83.   Sparkling

84.   Spinning

85.   Stooping

86.   Strutting

87.   Swimming

88.   Talking

89.   Tapping

90.   Telling

91.   Thinking

92.   Touching

93.   Twirling

94.   Twisting

95.   Visiting

96.   Walking

97.   Weaving

98.   Whispering

99.   Working

100.               Yawning

Nanowrimo Timeline

It's pretty hard to write a daily blog for November when my dial-up connection won't open blogger every day. So I've given up on that quest but I'm still plugging away at Nanowrimo. I'm behind there as well, since I have to share a computer and just can't get much typing time. So today I'm going to spend four hours at the library playing catch-up and hopefully getting back on goal with the Nanowrimo timeline.

I spent Sunday at a model rocket event watching a friend launch a rocket taller than he is. I didn't know much about Lucerne Valley, CA when I moved here, but it seems it's the hot spot for launching model rockets on the dry lake bed that you can see from my house.

Wrapping Up NaNoWrimo and NaBloPoMo

I'm killing two birds with one stone today, making my last November post for National Blog Posting Month as well as submitting my last few words to National Novel Writing Month.

I'd planned to write all day for NaNoWriMo, but alas it was not to be. My plans today just flew out the window. I knew I was vaguely planning to go up the coast for my grandson's first birthday and my daughter's housewarming party in December.  What I failed to realize was that to get to the party on Dec. 3, I need to be on the train tomorrow.  Tomorrow is Thursday and the train isn't too bad. Fridays however, tend to be stuffed as business commuters and people going out of town for the weekend are all looking for a seat.

So I had to drop everything, pack, reserve a ticket, decide what projects to take, do laundry, get my cell phone working again, arrange rides to and from the train station, and all those niggling little things a person has to do before going out of town for a few days. Don't get me wrong. I am looking forward to it. I just didn't realize it would be such a time crunch. December is going to be to hectic, so I won't be signing on to do another daily blog here.  Maybe in January when I'm a year old and wiser.

An old friend just sent me this photo. This is what I looked like about 35 years ago.

Where Will I Write Next?

I have a question for all of those who use Blogger to make multiple blogs.  I have over 70 blogs on Blogger and it would be nice is there was a table of contents page of sorts, where in 30 seconds or less, a reader could go straight to my most recent post on Blogger. If people have no idea which of my blogs I added a post to last, they are not going to click through the entire list looking for the most current post.

If you know of such a thing please point me to it.
When November's NaBloPoMo ends, I will still be blogging almost daily but not necessarily on the Red Quill Chronicles blog.  I already had a daily blog on crafts before this thing started which has been somewhat neglected to do this one. A person can only do so many 'daily' things, and I already do a daily painting and a daily doodle, and until the end of this month, daily fiction writing for Nanowrimo. Busy Busy. And of course December has holidays in it, and I will most likely be out of town for four or five days. And I'm opening a new Etsy shop for my square foot paintings on Dec. 1, 2011.

It may not be until January 2012 that I can write regularly again, unless someone is feeling really generous and gives me a laptop.

Oh My It's Getting Busy

As the weekend approaches things are getting more hectic.  We have a craft show on Sat. and I just realized it's going to be hard to work on my novel when I'm not near my computer and I have other distractions. We are not doing a traditional Thanksgiving, so I at least have plenty of time to write today, Friday and Sunday.
I just passed the 5000 word mark.

I did my daily doodle in oil pastels today.  I need to work on a painting as well.  And I have so much sewing that I've shelved to do these other projects like NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. I'm busy, I'm happy, but I'm starting to feel a little frayed around the edges.

And if I decide to go to my grandson's 1st birthday party 300 miles away it's going to get even more hectic.

Nanowrimo Continued

I'm really having fun working on my novel.  It's in the erotic category so I can be as naughty as I want.
My hands are not happy with all the typing though. It's one thing to type a blog post. It's another thing to type 5,000 words a day, which is what I need to do to finish in time.  I typed 1000 before breakfast.  At least I type fast. So far, the story is happening as fast as I can type, and then some.
You can track my progress on the bar widgets to the right.

I'm still doing a painting a day also, and here it is.

Darn You Lisa Simpson

This year I decided to skip Nanowrimo and do Nablopomo instead. I purposely did not go to the Nanowrimo site at all, lest I should be tempted.  Then tonight it was like the universe conspired against me.
Between seeing a post on Twitter from a friend who said this was her 7th year doing National Novel Writing month, and reading something about 'the more you do the more you can do', and my friend Freakishlemon getting to the 30,000 word point, I was still thinking, "How insane would it be if I started Nanowrimo now, on the 20th day. I mean I only finished it once before and barely in a nick of time.

But the last straw was tonight when I was watching the Simpson's cartoon.  It was all about Lisa trying to write a young adult novel, and procrastinating. It made me realize how much I missed writing fiction and how opportunities were passing me by.  I felt my resolve cracking.

Also, my boyfriend hates Nanowrimo and I didn't want to cause any friction.

Well, I thought I'd peek at the Nanowrimo site and see if my old log in would work. Talk about a gateway drug.  I saw this very night that my local group had paired up with the LA group and they were all on the Amtrak Coastline train on a fancy trip from San Diego to San Francisco and I could have been on it! They'd done some sort of fundraiser so they could go.  And then I realized that Nanowrimo is as much about socializing with other writers as it is about finishing 50,000 words. And I'm kicking myself for giving up one of my dreams just because my boyfriend thinks it's stupid.

So here I am, at the eleventh hour diving in to Nanowrimo with my first writing session almost 1000 words. Usually the big thing that stops me from succeeding at Nanowrimo was being out of town for Thanksgiving.  Well, this year I'm not going anywhere. I may or may not finish, but I'm sure going to put my finger in the pie and have a taste. If you want to check out my profile for Nanowrimo it's here.