NaNoWriMo

Tara was whisking through the aisle of her home while vigorously rubbing the temples of her head, 'Sheesh! I need to get Victor moving!' she mumbled.

'Creativity...where thy gone?' she shouted in frustration while plopping on the chair and staring at her computer screen.

'Nanowrimo you are putting me on the edge!' she moaned in agitation.

Finally! She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. 

Gradually she could feel herself relax and in a few minutes vigorous tapping of the keyboard could be heard from a distance. Her mind thy tool could get the antidote for Victor. 


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Wordless Wednesday #30

Some postures resonate peace and sanctity.

Is this man made theory that has been absorbed by all? Or has it been tried and tested and thus, send out messages of harmony and serenity?

Wishing many bloggers who are participating in the Blog A-Z challenge, Camp NanoWriMo and NanoPoMo and many other such challenges to align themselves with faith and inner peace since this is a game of creativity.

Mantra for today: Creativity only works when there is peace within. 

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How to be Productive?

I never realized this, until the month of November advent upon me, and I took up the challenge to write 50,000 words in this month besides running my normal errands and other writing obligations.

Initially I thought I am just nervous thus, keep going back and forth from my Hubpages to yahoo to facebook accounts and then again to my writing document. I would excuse myself with the pretext that my creativity needs a sparkle hear, and there thus, it's totally acceptable to go back and forth every 20 minutes or so...End product...Sunset embarks upon my little town, and I am still working on my 2,000 words of the novel.

Not productive at all, since my other writing was not happening. I had to prepare my coursework for my Reiki students and was still struggling with fate and kismat and destiny with my characters of the novel.


I started to think that I have ADHD and did not realize it until now. I was shocked but also thought that it never too late to get treated so, took it in the positive stride.


So, how to be productive?

Stay focused on my assigned work for 1 hour continuously and DO not open any site or link. There were times that after 10 minutes, I would stare at my text of the document, and hope that they talk to me since; I was getting utterly bored of these lifeless characters. But, I stuck to my code.

And as soon as my clock ticked 11am. I went to open my FB account and was glad to see so much activity happening there. I felt alive. I timed myself for 10 minutes and clicked on the X button and came back to the document.

Initially, I was extremely unhappy but then it felt my characters were talking to me, so I went and stroked their back with my letters. Voila, In two hours time, I could achieve my 2,000 words.

Mantra for today: Focus and determination pays off

I hope I continue to do this tomorrow :)

Challenges for this month!

Thanks to my blogging buddies that I got introduced to Nanowriteup month. It is a novel to be written in the month of November, and it should be a minimum of 50,000 words.


Writing a novel makes a writer search within himself and churn out all the creativity. A writer also gets an opportunity to bring out all sorts of incidents that he has faced or feared in his lifetime and bring them out in the form of some character.

Since I am writing about mixed cultures, which is so remarkable about the United States that I have to look back into their history and their names to figure out outline of the character's personality. This takes time for me since I am researching and writing and trying to maintain a steady balance between my household and my kid's classes etc.

I also got myself enrolled in my Master's program for Reiki. I have been practicing Reiki for over 3 years now, and I get a chance to enroll myself for this program. This is something I had always been looking out for. Did not think twice about the overload it may cause esp with 50,000 words that had to come with a distinct flow and as my friend Terrye says that words gotta flow as smooth as a wine.

So, I am unto the challenge with NanowriMo, My Master's Reiki program and a Diwali festival coming up during this month.

Sometimes, I wonder how will I attain it. But, I feel if I stay focused on one day at a time...things will happen.

Mantra for today: Plan each day and it will take you  closer to your goal.