Syphrett's Tales

The book is done at 46k words. I could write some kind of epilogue to stretch it out but the main action is done.

I'm going to go through and proof it and then put it up for sale at createspace and pubit hopefully between now and the summer.

Look for it at Amazon and B&N.com
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It's ten days to Nano. I think I have a good plot, maybe some memorable characters, and the will to write 50k in a month.

Bob's Walk is almost done. I expect to get it done by the weekend maybe. Then I can work on the other stories that I started and will neglect for the month of November.

I have talked with him about both Pubit and CreateSpace for the book. I am leaning towards Create space since it makes a real book while Pubit seems to be for ebooks only. I'll have ...

Its Oct 16, I have 26517 words left to reach my goal, and 15k for Bob's Walk to reach minimum novel status.

The first six guardians went down one by one but now at the back end of the book, Bob is stuck in a three way fight with the ninth guardian and his war machine, and the other two guardians that he 'threatened' into helping him.

It looks like they were using him instead of the other way around.
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I decided to use October as testrun up for next month. So far five thousand words behind where I should be at this point in time.

The guinea pig that I am practicing on is Bob's Walk. I hope to get it done by the end of the month, but think it will be much shorter than the 50k minimum for a novel.

It's about Bob. He wakes up in a strange place where various bionomes shift in and out. He learns there are nine bionomes, or rings. Each ring has a guardian. Each guardian ...

You have your ten item setting list. You have your five line plot. You still can't get started writing. Maybe your brain wants more detail. Maybe you can't think of anything to say. Maybe it was a dark and stormy night is counter productive.

Take the first line of your plot. Intro the hero. The hero should already have something in the item list. Pick the items relevant that you can use. Write a list of scenes you need for that plot. Generally it's only going to be one, maybe two ...