Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Fear Not Blog Hop Samantha Fury

THIS BLOG HOP HAS ENDED!!!

You Can Read The Post about Fear but the hop is over. 

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WELCOME!  We're so glad you could drop by our Fear Not Blog Hop. We hope to have more hops in the future so be sure and bookmark, follow, leave a trail of bread, whatever it takes to find your way back!




We have lots of great giveaways and even have a Face book Event HERE, check it out if you like good clean christian novels.

We have our Grand prize giveaway for $95.00 Amazon Gift Card at the main site, be sure and check it out HERE  








I've read that fear is mentioned over more than 500 times in the Bible so it sounds like God was trying to make a point. Even if it was only in the Bible one time that really should have been enough, but we are human, and we do fail, so at times we need a reminder. What better time of the year to remind someone than at Halloween.





 
In my novels I try to show that God is there for us every day, not just on the bad days, but the good days too.  Charlie Anderson, is always finding a new reason that she needs to trust God and not be afraid. She first has to leave home, because of her dads anger. I'm sure she was afraid to strike out on her own. Then she ends up being beaten by her sisters boyfriend, and I know she was afraid then.


Everywhere she turns she finds a new situation that causes her to doubt and be afraid, but every time she stands on her faith. She stands on what she has learned from the word of God to keep her strong, and that's what we have to do too. When we feel afraid or weak we need to go to the word. When we are afraid we need to quote the Bible.

Isaiah 41:10  So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Join in on my Giveaway below and check out our grand prize giveaway also. 



Each day there will be prizes at our Facebook Event, so check in daily to see what goodies we are handing out.  There will be books, books and more books, and maybe even a Pre-made Book Cover for those Authors in the audience.

Also if you're a Reader feel free to join our Christian Indie Authors Readers Group Here 

Be sure and enter one of my Giveaways below. I have one for Authors and one for Readers. Check them out. 

Author giveaway rules is you must be willing to accept a pre-made e-book cover from the list of covers here on this page.  Authors must have at least one published work behind their name or be ready to publish their first work within the next three months. Take a look at the covers before you enter to see if there is a cover you'd like to see your name on.  I also hope to have an extra drawing on the Event page sometime this week. See the covers here.

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Magdalena Kucova
Javier Brosch 
Samantha Fury 
Mary Campagna Findley 

 
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Friday, October 11, 2013

NaNoWriMo 2016: What is NaNo?

I know we're starting a little early but I want all those new writers to learn about NaNo.

NaNoWriMo: The Contest

Coming this November will be one of the most exciting contests I've ever entered. I'll be fighting against someone that's hard-headed and hard to please. A person that thanks God for the opportunity to write. A person that loves to write, and a person that I know will fight to win when Nano pushes her to new heights and new way's of thinking. I'll be competing with this person every minute and that person is ME.


What is NaNo?
It's a contest where you try to write 50 thousand words in a month.  Yes you heard me right.  It can be done, thousands of people do it every year.  True, every word of it might not be worth keeping, but it teaches you to get out on that limb and write.  Never heard of Nano go here.




Win Prizes and Pride through NaNoWriMo

I've entered and won this contest in November many times. Each time in November, I have won a prize. Five years in a row, I won a free book for participating and winning the contest. Now, of course, there is no way for the good NaNoWriMo folks to know if you are cheating or not, but they hope that you won't.  They also offer discounts on various kinds of writing software. We'll all just have to sign up to see what great goodies they are offering this year.




Words, Words, Words
It's not easy to write 50,000 words in a month, but it can be done. For me now it comes down to a contest against my last year's record. I try to get in one really good day with about 11,000 words, so if I have a bad day, I don't get so far behind. Last year I hit 11 and change in a 24 hour period. I was stoked.

I don't think I had ever written that many words in one day. I also don't know if I will ever beat that record or not, but you can bet that I will do my best when November comes around.

Outline?
For those of you that have done Nano before you know that the only thing you can do towards getting ready for the contest writing wise, is to work on that outline.  You can plan and think and outline, but you can not write one word not even that first line to this great new novel until midnight of November the first. I don't have my outline started yet.  I'll once again be working on my Street Justice Series during this month so I'll need to do a little reading on the last novel and see where I left off.


Really 50,000 words in a month 
Writing 50,000 words in a months opened my mind to a new way of writing. It helped me learn to focus on the creation of the story, and to put editing to the back burner. It helped me to see that I can write under pressure. It taught me that some of my best work comes when I'm working and writing under a timeline. When I won and finished over 50,000 words in less than 30 days it gave me a boost, and give me a great feeling of accomplishment.

Please don't let the idea of failing stop you from trying to win Nano. Don't keep yourself from the lessons that are waiting there to be learned. It's fun, it's exciting, and at times it can be a little frustrating. I can't stress enough what a learning experience this is, so come on join in on the fun, and see if you can write 50k or more in a month.
Winning! 
Winning is fun that is for sure, but even if you don't win, you can learn so much from being in this contest.  You can meet some great people, learn that you can write a lot of words in one month, but most of all you learn to write write write.

I learned that I can write things that were not in my outline, that sometimes if do put myself out on that writing limb that the story line I created while out there will last and it is good.  I suggest that every writer tries Nano at least once.


Still looking for more to read on Nano check my older nano post from previous years, some of the information will be repetitive some not.
Images thanks to 
Annette Shaff 
Javier Brosch
Edward Fielding
Ramona D'Viola
T.A. Byrne
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