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I won. Yes, as of November 25th, I completed a total of 50,851 words. In my previous NaNo update, I mentioned I was shooting for 60k by the end of the month. If I write 2k a day, which I have been since November 15th, I’ll meet this goal. I’m on chapter eighteen for Sanctified, …
Yes, I’m participating. So I thought I’d give a quick update of my writing goals and progress until the end of the year. As you know, Blessed was released on July 06, 2018, the first book in the Matawapit Family Trilogy. At the end of October, I finished the fourth draft for Redeemed, Book Two, …
It’s time for another writing update. I finished reviewing the galley. eXtasy Books has scheduled a release for Blessed on Friday, June 29, 2018. Logline: A mixed-blood Catholic seminarian struggles to discern his true calling: the priesthood or his ex-lover, a proud but damaged Ojibway man.
Over the weekend, the wonderful artist at eXtasy Books sent me a copy of my book cover for Blessed. The potential release date is June 15th.
This is a great place developed by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, creators of Writing Helping Writers and their most famous tool for a writer out there–the Emotion Thesaurus. One Stop for Writers is what it says. You have access to all of the thesaurus’ written by Becca and Angela (besides the Emotion Thesaurus), such …
My grandfather, grandmother, father, aunts, and uncles were forced to attend these institutions devised by the federal government and run by Christian churches to assimilate Indigenous people into Western culture. These schools started after 1880 with the last one closing in 1996. To understand this period in Canadian History, I highly recommend A Knock on …
Today, my First Nations community is hosting a powwow starting at 10:00 AM. Check out this link to find out more about this special day.
…hack your way through the forest. Yeah, that about sums up my situation. Over at LiveJournal, I can recall starting a new LJ to record my journey to publication. I did this around June 2010…I think. Thanks to the dry eyes, I won’t be pursuing traditional or e publishing. There is no way I can …
That was the best advice given to me by a friend. He told me this years ago when I was very confused with all of the advice being directed at me from more knowledgeable people. Funny how something so simple can be used for…everything in your life: Take what you need, leave what you don’t …
My poor blog. I’ve been neglecting him. The only idea I can think of for posting is another addition of life on the rez. Let’s look at what you’ll usually find and where some people work, such as the administration centre aka band office. Yes, every community has a band office. Some are old and …
Does your protagonist like his/her job? Are they considering a career change? One of the duties of my former position with an aboriginal employment and training organisation was assisting individuals with making career changes. So, yes, finding the right job or sticking my protagonist in a job he/she hates is important to me, because our …
I read a great article by Danielle Monsch about branding. What an eye-opener. I looked through my own blog and tags afterwards. What did I discover? Music and YouTube links were quite prominent, same with yapping about rock stars and rock biographies. Then I glanced through my GoodReads “read” books. A lot of reading was …
Yes, I did. Yesterday evening, 50K loomed on the horizon. I was almost there. Tired and dehydrated, I stumbled across the finish line, swearing to myself I’d never do this again.
I was over at Romance University and followed Loucinda McGary’s link to her blog. She is a great blogger, with all kinds of interesting topics going on. One of them I liked was Ten Things… I’m an Ojibway chickie (thanks to mom and dad) who grew up on the rez–or First Nation, if I use …
Yes, I thought I’d take a quick break from my NaNo project in order to blog. This is my second year and I’m ahead of the game at 31,356 words so far—or something like that (I’d have to check). According to the NaNo stat thingie, I should finish on November 23rd. Would be nice. Hopefully …
Maggie Blackbird 