It’s NaNoWriMo Time!

Not today, but next Sunday. Am I excited? Hell yes! This will be my seventeenth consecutive year of writing one or two books in November, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). According to the NaNoWriMo website, over the past sixteen years, I’ve completed a total of 24 projects and 1,862,052 words. I calculate over twice that number of completed projects when I include non-NaNoWriMo months of writing. Heck, last year alone, I wrote 1,141,946 words. I’ve been a little off that pace this year, but still managed to produce a lot of books. (I currently have 48 stories on on my two websites!)

What that also means is that it’s pledge week. You know, like public radio? Except this is money that goes in my pocket to pay for my websites, printing, and providing ALL my books for online reading at no charge. All thanks to my patrons at www.patreon.com/nathaneverett.

The benefit to me is obvious, but what’s in it for you? I have two major tiers of patronage. At $5 per month (Fellow Travelers), you get everything I release before I release it anywhere else. That includes new eBooks as well as online serials. Next Sunday, patrons at this level will begin reading Liam’s Place At the Table (slated for general release at Christmas), the vastly rewritten and improved version of last year's NaNoWriMo project, American Royalty 1: Coming of Age. Patrons are currently reading my new Devon Layne work, Pussy Pirates, a story in Thinking Horndog’s Swarm Cycle Universe. In the meantime, I’m putting out new versions of some of my older stories, like The Art and Science of Love, all of which will be released on either NathanEverett.com or DevonLayne.com.

At the $10 per month level (Fifth Wheel), you get to watch me make it happen. The Fifth Wheel tier gets to read everything new I’m writing, as I write it—raw and unedited. Believe me, November is a big month for these folks. I’ve already begun writing a new Devon Layne Swarm story, tentatively titled The Assassin. Starting Sunday, I’ll have a new Nathan Everett NaNoWriMo story starting with nearly daily posts. This one is called It Ain’t Immortality, But…

Theo is a septuagenarian with a heart problem. He is invited to take part in an experimental program that will reset his cellular age to his mid-thirties. He’ll still be an old man. He’ll still look like an old man. But he’ll have the energy and vigor he had as a young man. With this new lease on life, Theo needs to decide what to do with his next twenty years.

He decides to take up photography and try to really get to know his subjects. He talks to each person he photographs on his journey and learns their story. Usually, this involves sharing food or drink and listening while the person entertains him with some important aspect of his or her life. The book will be Theo finding, photographing, and listening to the stories of the people he meets.

Chapters will be coming on a near daily basis for my Fifth Wheel patrons as I write during November. They get it raw and unedited, often giving me advice as to where the story should go next! Of course, Fifth Wheel patrons also get all the new works the Fellow Travelers tier gets.

So, there is my annual pledge drive promotion. Join me and get the latest and greatest from your favorite author!

https://www.patreon.com/nathaneverett

!!All Nathan Everett patrons have equal access to Devon Layne stories if they want it!!

To celebrate or mourn?

No, this is not a political post. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm celebrating having found a campsite for the winter.

It's Point Hudson Marina and RV Park in Port Townsend, WA where I will have a chilly and rainy winter, but I shouldn't completely freeze. That picture is facing Puget Sound southeast. Here's are a couple of maps for orientation.

I'll be facing more or less northeast with my rear picture window. Across toward Whidbey Island. It's a good spot but Washington Lease Tax almost put it out of reach. $80 a month in tax to rent the RV pad!

Then in other news, I broke a computer this week and of course some of my most valuable files weren't backed up recently. Information I had posted to one of my websites was recoverable. Files I'd received in email were recoverable. My current development and recent dev files that hadn't been uploaded yet weren't so lucky. Remember those two books I released on my birthday?

I'm glad they are on sale at Amazon and Barnes & Noble because all the production files are gone! For Mayhem or Madness was backed up to my website for release but I hadn't uploaded Not This Time yet. And there were other books I'd recently formatted for release on my website and first time in print or eBook. Like The Hero Lincoln Trilogy. I'd show you a picture of the cover, but I don't have one. All the edits of all three books and the layout for the trilogy in a single volume plus four covers--gone.

And I need to start over from my editors' files on putting Rise and Awaken together. I'd gotten through sixteen of twenty-three chapters and was very pleased with the improvements. I have the editing files in email.

I'd uploaded quite a lot of my development material for my new Swarm Cycle endeavor, The
Assassin, but in a burst of inspiration early this week, I'd done an amazing world-building document, a population development spreadsheet, an action outline, not yet organized into a plot outline, and a detailed listing of issues I needed to deal with in one part of the novel. Gone.

I guess that's the mournful part. A lot of documents I need to rebuild and hope I can be as brilliant as I was the first time around. 

So, I'll toss out a bit of good news, I managed to get an appointment for a couple of badly needed trailer repairs before the winter, so I'll be leaving Sun Meadow the 20th to drop off my trailer in Burlington, WA on the 21st. I'll be staying in Lynnwood until the first when I pick up the trailer and move across the Sound to that beautiful spot shown above. Yippee!