CHANNELING AND NANOWRIMO
Channeling Funny
I Had to Tell You About It
I signed up for the Spring NaNoWriMo Writing Camp. This is the one where you choose your own word count goal. Something came over me, and I pounced on the title How to Get Published and an 80,000-word count. I don’t know how that happened because I do not know how to get published. I can learn, though I’ve been dragging my feet all along the way. It just seems like such a ponderous trek.
I used to do things like that when I’d been drinking. I don’t know what came over me because I’ve been stone-cold sober for so many years I’ve lost track. It was sometime after 1993 because Seth helped me. 1993 was when I started channeling.
I’ve also started poking around the Writing Mastery Academy. I snagged a free six-month membership for them during last November’s NaNoWriMo, which normally would cost $90 ($15 a month). You get discounts on goodies when you sign up for NaNoWriMo and participate. Since only 11% of the people who signed up ever finish with their word count goals, not everybody gets to take advantage of the deeper discounts offered to folks who make their word goals.
Over the years, I’ve purchased Plotter, Scrivener, and Atticus. I think I want to write in Scrivener this time. You can run the project through Grammarly with both Atticus and Scrivener. The bonus for me is that I can see all my chapters off to the side. When I get to each chapter, I can see the word count easily. You can also drag and drop stuff to better position them in the book. There might be an easy way to do that in Word, but I’ve never found out how to do it other than to highlight each chapter and note the total. It’s a little awkward in Word.
Here’s a screenshot of my book How to Channel and Save Money on Psychics in Scrivener. So far, it’s 54,016 words, which isn’t long enough. It needs a rewrite.
What is also interesting to me is that the Community part of the Writing Mastery Academy includes areas where you can search for readers for your books based on reciprocal reading of each other’s projects. It’s difficult for me to ask for help, but this might make it easier.
I also decided to track my word counts with ten days remaining before Spring NaNo starts. I normally don’t do this, but it can put me in the mood for long-haul writing. Generally, I bop around during the day and alternate my writing with watching YouTube videos and reading.
You know I forgot what the Channeling Funny was. Bad writer. I should have noted it right when it happened.
[Note from the author: I started channeling below. Seth and Nefertiti are in the bold italic font.]
We could remind you.
Yeah, like that always works.
Why wouldn’t it work? If needs must, we can tickle your funny bone with something else.
Okay, I’m game. Well?
We’re thinking.
Ha! That did make me laugh.
Might we make a recommendation?
Sure.
You are undecided about what sort of project you want to do. You could dig up one of your other book projects and work on that instead of something fresh.
That’s a thought, but I was sort of looking forward to doing something new.
Yes, but having a new project where you are creating a story from the beginning is not going to dovetail with your intention to complete your Save The Cat Writes a Novel in 15 Steps course with the Writing Mastery Academy. We would anticipate that the hesitancy you exhibit while trying to be a good writer will interfere with a new project. There is still time to think about it.
I could do a blitz on the course and finish it in ten days.
You could, but the learning in these courses is accumulative rather than a recipe where you produce delectable brownies at the end of an hour’s time. You’ve got to allow the information to sink into your subconscious for it to be of use to you. It just takes time, and it won’t be the dramatic improvement you are hoping for in ten days.
You’ve got a point. But I could still track my writing progress through the day and do like I’ve done with other NaNoWriMo projects and schedule Medium stories to publish while I’m working on the NaNo stuff in April.
How many stories would you be interested in scheduling in advance?
Maybe one every other day? That would make it 15 articles. And I could insert more as I am inspired during April. Having those articles scheduled will prevent me from getting so panicked if I go a long time between Medium stories.
Have you considered a project of channeling? We would be pleased to do that for you. You could ask questions or propose topics, and we could talk about them.
Would you identify yourselves?
If you want, there is, of course, myself…(Channeling funny, he really said moi, but I changed it to ‘myself’ just now, and there was a spiritual stirring of the air on that plane.) If you think that was funny, you should see how many folk in spirit have gathered to volunteer their services for this little soiree.
Okay, so there is no shortage of guides and others in spirit who can talk.
The anonymity of your staff of folk in spirit would guarantee that you not get nervous if Harry Truman or Jesus wants to talk. Your eyebrows are doing that thing they do.
Very funny. You’re right. That does make me nervous. No telling who you all would dig up to talk.
You are amusing in your own right. Nefertiti would like to say something now.
You all are wearing me out. Okay, go ahead.
You would speak to a queen of Egypt in that way?
Sorry. Hello, Your Highness.
I wasn’t always a highness. In fact, I’ve reincarnated several times since then.
Are you in body right now?
Yes, in two places.
Are you talking about different planes or different planets?
No, I am grass right now in a beautiful field on the Savannas in Africa, and I am a small girl in Tennessee.
Really? I’ve never heard of anybody doing that. Being grass and a person at the same time.
There is much you have never heard of.
I guess. Is it nice being grass?
Yes, the life spent as a piece of grass is, of course, not going to be that long, but it is the quality of the life that matters. Even as I shrivel and die in the heat of summer it will be an experience like no other. Any advice I give to you or others reading this is to treasure the life you are living now. Don’t keep looking over the fence at all that greener grass and wish you were there instead of in your present circumstances.
Thank you for popping in and talking to us.
Yes, you are quite welcome. I might pop in again occasionally, especially if you ever decide to do an entire book of channeling.
I think that would be fun. I’d need to work on my stamina, I suppose.
Yes, there is that to aim for.
Hi everybody. I’m back. So, that’s what channeling is for me. Other people do it differently, but that was a few minutes worth.
Thanks for reading.
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