Hi guys! I posted before, but I thought I would remind the other Nassau County Nano-ers.
I'll be starting my stressful uphill trek that is my 50K YA novel on:
Monday November 2nd at Borders.
I will be at the one in Westbury on Old Country Road at 6:30-8:30 (probably a little earlier than that).
For those of you who are interested, send me a msg so I don't sit at a single person table and get a bigger one. Also, if there are more than one or two of us, I can bring Nano candy! (It's sugar fuel to help with the initial burst of creative energy)
If I dont see any of you guys, Good luck with your writing! The final countdown has begun!
<3Nisha
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Nisha Sharma
Author of Young Adult Fiction
www.nisha-sharma.com
42,050 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 18 00
Just a reminder about Monday! Since the official start of Nano starts in TWO HOURS *bitesfist* I'll be raring to go on Monday at 6:30. LouiseR, Dangerous_Rose, Monkeysox, and anyone else interested is more than welcome to come! (information in post above)
----------Nisha Sharma
Author of Young Adult Fiction
www.nisha-sharma.com
12,462 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 07 57
I'll definitely be there. :)
----------♥touslestemps♥
48,405 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 17 47
Oh my gosh!! I live in East Meadow as well Nisha, so I'm right near that Borders, but I'm so nervous about even thinking of meeting up with other writers! I'm very self-conscious about my work, lol!
42,050 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 17 54
Haha, don't be nervous!
Remember what Ernest Hemingway said: "The first draft of anything is sh*t." Lol. Look forwarding to seeing you!
----------Nisha Sharma
Author of Young Adult Fiction
www.nisha-sharma.com
48,040 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 03
I would really like to go tomorrow, but I need to make sure I have a ride first, and that I'm allowed to bring the family laptop. Sometime tomorrow, I'll let you know if I'm able to make it!
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Nov 1, 2009 - 21 34
DaHalo:
Let me be the first to say AMEN!!! I agree with you and feel the same way, you are definitely NOT alone on this.
And let me take this moment as the time to openly and publicly admit something I've been hiding for approximately 20 years but first, here's a little history about me:
I'm just about 28 years old and have been writing since I could hold a pen. I've been creating stories since a lot longer than that. I was an English major in college, written over 1000 unfinished short stories, and have had several ideas I've worked on come out as movies even before my writing was finished! (Deep Impact is a great example: in the mid- to late-90's I was writing a story about a Pacific coast island that was threatened to be wiped out by a tsunami... before it was anything more than an outline and a few suggestive paragraphs, the movie came out with eerie similarities. Since then, I've been very protective of everything I do. I know it sounds stupid and paranoid but the breakout star author doesn't want to be compared to someone or something else: "That so-and-so's book is just like that movie I saw last year!" Where does that leave you? Branded a copycat. I don't believe in coincidence so that was just bad timing.)
Now here's the cocky part: I'm an excellent writer. OK, so my grammar and symmetrics and whatnots aren't the greatest, and I have the occasional typo or misuse of a word- who doesn't? But I know I'm good. I'm great. In fact, I was told by my college English professor I should be working in Hollywood "fetching $1 million scripts!" I was 18 when he wrote that to me (I should mention that aside from books, I aspire to write movies). So you'd think that having the praise and some education and all that, I'd have written something substantial by now. But I haven't. You might not care at this point, but if you do, you might ask why? This is the reveal of my "Deep Impact" secret: I am afraid that someone is going to read something I've written and take off with the idea and leave me hanging. Every writer fears that. That's what's so great about copyright laws and intellectual property laws. But that's not the only fear I have. In fact, it's not even the main fear I don't share my work.
Writing to me is personal. It should be for any serious writer. But it's not just about writing something great that someone would want to read: I throw myself so completely into the idea, the characters, the buildup, the conflict, the overall outcome of the story... I put pieces of myself into my writing, private and deeply personal thoughts and feelings and hopes and dreams in order to make my stories comes to life and my characters more 3D. So my real secret: I'm afraid to share my work because I feel it leaves me open and vulnerable to someone else, someone I can't control (like my characters), who can use what they've read against me. I don't know how or why they'd want to but I'm afraid they will see a side of me that I've never shown; a hidden, secret side that I like to keep to myself. Like pulling a band-aid off a cut quickly, I'm afraid having someone read my work will leave me exposed and susceptible to.... gosh, I don't even know what! But that's my fear...
I am extremely self-conscious about my work, perhaps, because I give off a certain persona or image and want people to think or look at me in a certain way and by reading what I've given so much time and thought and energy into, they'll see a deeper, softer, more romantic (barf) side of me that I don't often like to share.
Shrug. That's as good a guess as I can muster. But take it as you will.
Anyway, enough! I'm going to bed...
Lynne
48,040 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 14 18
Ahh! So some plans came up for tonight (They involve cookie dough and an oven), so I can't come to tonight's write-in. But if I'm not mistaken, you're going to be there every Monday and Wednesday? Because I think I can come Wednesday. :)
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Nov 2, 2009 - 15 30
Come wednesday! Your apologizes will be accepted if cookies are offered as a bribe. :-) (jk!)
For everyone else, I'm sitting in the cafe when you first walk in. I have a red scarf and I'm lacking the ambition to write today. Bleh. Someone come encourage me!
----------Nisha Sharma
Author of Young Adult Fiction
www.nisha-sharma.com
12,462 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 18
Tonight was awesome. :)
----------For those who didn't come: you definitely don't know what you're missing.
♥touslestemps♥
18,000 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 30
Sorry I missed it, had something going on, though I hope to be able to come to the next one. Will check in more often to see when it is
----------~ Steve
42,050 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 20 03
Aww, thanks E!
It was good to see you after a YEAR.
For everyone else, we're meeting at Borders every Monday and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 at Borders on Old Country Road in Westbury.
It's fun because we complain about how Facebook is the worst temptress.
----------Nisha Sharma
Author of Young Adult Fiction
www.nisha-sharma.com