Big Kindle Boogie: A Chance to Win a Kindle Fire!

WIN A KINDLE FIRE IN THE BIG KINDLE BOOGIE

10 Free Kindle Fires, 75 free ebooks, $300 in gift cards, a $500 library donation! Entries for 10 free Kindle Fires are already underway at http://bigkindleboogie.blogspot.com and gift cards are bing randomly awarded on Twitter for those who tweet about the Big Kindle Boogie.

On Feb. 1-2, bestselling thriller authors J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, Carson Black, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson are making 75 Kindle books free on Amazon. They are also making a $500 donation to the local library of one Kindle Fire winner. They are also releasing the five-book Ultimate Thriller Box Set for free during the event. Contest is international, no purchase necessary. You can also join the Facebook party at http://www.facebook.com/BigKindleBoogie.

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Everything free, everything fun. Good luck!

Wednesday's Writing Update: So Many Words and Kindle Fire

Happy Wednesday!

My review of Cher Green's Seduced by Darkness is on Surrounded by Books Reviews.

I got my Kindle Fire on Thursday, so I've been so excited about it. It does everything it says it does. The web browsing is even faster than my laptop. The picture quality is phenomenal. Now I haven't streamed a movie/TV show yet, but it's coming. There is a bit of glare to the screen, but no more than my laptop. I love it.

Now to the NaNoWriMo Update. If anything I've learned by doing NaNoWriMo is that I'm a plotter through and through. Starred was so easy to write, even though I randomly wrote scenes in it. I knew what those scenes looked like, so all I had to do was sit down and write what was planned out in my head. The Last Prophetess is taking twice as long to write because I don't know what comes next and I have to think about the scenes as I write them instead of being ready to sit down and write. That being said, I still hope to get 50,000 in The Last Prophetess by the end of November, but the first draft won't be complete until December. I think I'll skip scenes too, if I don't know what comes next. I feel like I do well with the out of order writing. It's okay to finish The Last Prophetess later, although I had hoped for to do better.

NaNoWriMo Stats:
Day 15: 51099 (Second Draft of Starred complete)
Day 16: 53438 (The Last Prophetess started)
Day 17: 56286
Day 18: 58174
Day 19: 58174 (Yeah, nothing written this day. :( )
Day 20: 61725
Day 21: 65152
Day 22: 68505

At the end of Day 22, I should've been at 73,333 words. So it didn't quite happen, but that's all right. I'll catch up. Who needs to talk to the family on Thanksgiving, right? *laughs* But something exciting did happen yesterday, though. I officially passed my highest word count in one month. In November 2009, I wrote 68,176 words. Now I'm above that number, so that is something to celebrate about, even if I am behind.

For those doing NaNo, have you gotten to your 50,000 words? Close to it? Given up? What are you working on?