This is for you Tigerr

HEY GUYS! I WON!!!
-Dreamer

Guess What, Everybody?

  We did it! Fist bump to all of you, because ALL of us finished our novels on time! Can you believe it? Well, I can! We rock, one and all! Thank you, God!
  And, of course, thank you to all of YOU for your support and pep talks and all that we've been through! Go eat an ice cream cone in celebration! (Or something similarly sweet.)
  And, of course, having won NaNoWriMo, you have earned FIVE free published copies of your novel! So, here's the scoop on that!
  Your deadline is June 30th for getting the whole thing done -- but as we learned last time, waiting till the last minute is a TERRIBLE idea. So, here's what I suggest:
  #1. If you have not finished your rough draft -- meaning you reached your word count, but did not finish your story, like me, then you want that whole thing done by the end of December. I mean it -- last time one particular member of this club (I won't say any names, Tigerr) took December off, and barely finished in time. Get that sucker done as quickly as humanly possible! Don't stop now that NaNoWriMo is over. Keep going, and finish it all!
  #2. Get right to editing it. Go in and fix any plot holes you want to fix. This could take one month or two months, depending on your preferences -- but if you want me to grammar edit for you (which I will totally do, by the way) then you should send me your finished manuscript by, say, March or April. Earlier is better.
  #3. Order the copies well before June 30th. Get to finishing the novel right away, and do your best so you can order the copies long before the deadline. I will help you with cover design and interior design and everything -- just finish your manuscript and send me an email. Really, don't hesitate -- I enjoy doing this, and I want everyone to get their copies.
  Well, that's all. I'd better go work on finishing my novel! (Although I already won, I need to finish. This thing is going to be HUGE.) Fantastic work, all of you, and God bless us, one and all!
  (If it is possible that you have not read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...go out and read it. Seriously. It's that good.)
-President Fantasy

Hey, I won!

 The title says it all. I won! :) It was hard, but I did it. I skipped chapters, skipped traveling parts, broke a nose, made Joseph cry a long time and nearly drove myself to the obessive writer phase, but I did it. So...yeah. Thanks everybody, for helping and encouraging me! :) A million thanks you to everybody, actually!
 Oh, and Dreamer + Raistlin: make a post, please. Everybody needs to know that you guys-I won't spill. You guys get to say it.
-Tigerr

The Storyteller's Creed

    Hello, fantastic-brilliant-encouraging-creative-wonderful-genius-fellow-writers-friends-clubbers-Wrimos-and-human-beings. (How's that for a new title for all of you? Sembers was too short. Maybe that's what I didn't like about it.)
  As we draw into these last few days of frenzied noveling (how's that word count?) I would like to share with you something that I really like. It's called the Storyteller's Creed -- that is, the words that we storytellers agree to and write by. If we really like it, it may become the new quote at the top of the blog. Here it is, and tell me what you think:

Storyteller’s Creed

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

That myth is more potent than history.

That dreams are more powerful than facts.

That hope always triumphs over experience.

That laughter is the only cure for grief.

And I believe that love is stronger than death.

  And...that's the Storyteller's Creed! I read it in Barnes & Noble in a book, but apparently it's universal to all authors. Be inspired, go on, and write powerful words that will change the world! (Or just go and finish your novel...but hey, what's the difference?)

 -President Fantasy

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

  ...from Kevin and Mark. Ha ha, just kidding. (I'm listening to their Thanksgiving Special right now, so...yeah.)
  Anyway, so, Happy Thanksgiving from me! We have SO much to be thankful for! (Including, I suppose, having thousands of words to write...can you tell I'm procrastinating?)
  And...Happy birthday! To you! From me! For my birthday tomorrow! (I like saying happy birthday to you. Humor me.)
  And...(I'm using that opener too much, come on, Sophie -- OOPS! I mean, President Fantasy...that's weird calling yourself President...never mind...) I have to go write a whole lot of words! YEAH!
-President Fantasy

My story!

I am just on here to tell everybody that I just broke the 10,000 word barrier!
-Raistlin

Twelve Days In!

  Well, well, well -- we're twelve days into the crazy month of November and I am hanging on to my word count...and having a great deal of fun writing the second book in the Cricket's Fire series! Right now, Jade's delivering papers and an Oreo cookie, Tal's missing, Robert's off on a mission with Alice (who pretty much hates his guts), and Cycle Cross is about to have a nuclear meltdown! It's great!
  (I almost thought about separating meltdown into two words there just to get an extra word in. Too much NaNo-ing, do you think?)
  Anyway, how about you? How's your story going? Anything interesting? Any writer's block frustrations or character problems that we can hash out together?
-President Fantasy

It's Been A Year?!

I can't believe it's been a year since I met you guys last November, and when I discovered this club.
-Poppy Red

A Day in the Life of NaNoWriMo

A video that Tigerr, Dreamer, and I put together. Please enjoy!

-President Fantasy

I Caught Up!

  Whew...thanks for the pep talk earlier today, Tigerr. I did it, just like you said, and I am now on schedule.
  I think I'll call Fridays "Crazy Fridays" from now on, since I can't really write on Thursdays, since I'm gone practically all day.
  Anyway, good luck to all as we head into the weekend! Get some good words in! I have something for you to inspire you -- like a pep talk. I didn't write it, someone else did. (It was in a school assignment of mine last year.) I hope you enjoy!

Word Power.

 Words can amuse. They can delight.

Words can also manipulate, waffle and lie.

Words can persuade, and words can mislead.

Words can distract, and words can inspire.

Words can touch the heart, arouse to passion, and convict of truth.

Words can bring wonder, awe, comfort, forgiveness, bonding, certainty, understanding, insight and clarity.

They can also cause anger, distortion, confusion, ambiguity, embarrassment, separation and destruction.

Words convey power.

They can give life. And they can kill. They can tear down, and they can build up.

Words of Power are more than raw carriers of useful factoids. The danger of a high-tech education is that it can lead to a bleak wasteland, a splintered nation of ever-more isolated individuals clinging to ever-more narrow interests. 

Words can bring us together. Or drive us apart.

Remember the words of the old Gospel Hymn?

Memorable Words/ Efficacious Words/ “Wonderful Words of Life”

Beyond information, there should be thinking and stretching. That goes for you as well as for your readers. Writers need pauses, like blank pages, when we ponder and the pen stops or the keys cease clicking.

Silence. Stillness. Wonder.

Perhaps, in the final analysis, novelists and storytellers are best at articulating our dreams and hopes and prayers. They, at their best, interpret God and ourselves to us.

They inculcate our sense of wonder.

It is true that words alone or without substance are empty.

I believe we cannot communicate well without images and sounds and graphics and colors and visuals and motions. But alone these are never enough.

There are, after all, grave limitations to the powers of the lens and the tube and the chip. The fully dimensional human viewpoint cannot be matched by any machine. The human eye is still sharper than the eye of a television camera because it is linked to a brain and a heart. (Paraphrased from the late Saul Pett, an AP news features writer) 

For it is in the Power of Words that images are translated into meaning in our brains and hearts. And into change.

With God’s Words, we can speak volumes. We can even speak new worlds into existence, just as God did at Creation.

We can, tell stories. Our stories. And join them to the Great Glad News of His Story.

So don’t sound the Requiem for the Written Word.

No, not yet. For in the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word WAS God. This is the Power of God. Now and forever.

Go. Increase your Word power. Write Powerful Words! Wonderful words! Wonderful words of life! In an Age of Image.

Go! In the Power of God’s Word. 

Have fun, and go write words!

-President Fantasy

Updated content

Hello everybody, just posting to tell everybody that my story has updated content.

-Raistlin

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am starting.

Hello everybody it's Raistlin here and i'm just coming on here to say that I am starting my writing for NaNoWriMo right now so here I go!!!

Hey, guess what, it's November!

 Okay, the title is obvious. But hey, it works. It's a title. And it's spectacular. Anway, I'm here to squeal that I, too, have gotten my writing done for the first day of NaNoWriMo this year! Woot, woot! I'm gonna do a bit extra, and maybe write ahead to a scene I like...whatever. At least I'm gonna write. How is everyone else doing on it? Has anyone else started theirs? Tr-Dreamer? Raistlin? Miss Templado? Wait, I KNOW she hasn't because she's my sister. I think I'll go tell her again. Thank you for your time, everyone. Have fun writing! :{) (The smily mustache man! Did I spell that rij;hugtdrghujijihugfghjhgfdfghjjygtfrdfghjght?)
-Tiger

NaNoWriMo! (clap,clap,clap,clap)

I just finished writing the first day of my novel for NaNoWriMo! So excited!! Even though I didn't have any pumpkin pie to eat, I had Halloween cake to eat.

-Poppy Red