Welcome to the Heibel Media Newsletter 
November 2014   


We're just a few days away from the release of Reunion.  I'm so excited to get my first novel and fourth book published.  I hope to see many of you at the book signing Nov. 4.

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)!  The challenge this month is to write the first 50,000 words of a new novel.  October was basically short story writing month as I held off on my next novel until 12:01 a.m. November 1. I started eight short stories last month and finished seven of them.  The first drafts anyway.

Writing short stories though is slow more careful process than writing novels.  Although I wrote new pages every single day for a perfect month, the word count was the lowest of the year with just 2 days with over 1,000 words written for a total count of 15,735 words written.

So going into November I need to write 67,969 words in November and again in December to reach the 500,000 words written goal.  My best results were in July with 51,228 words written and my record for a month is Nov. 2013, the first NaNoWriMo when I wrote 60,719.  So it's doable, but could be rough.



Edition 16
In this issue
Book Launch and Signing
Digital Collection
November is NaNoWriMo
Print Collection
Write 365 Initiative Progress Report
Writing 500k Words Update
As I Write Blog Update
What's Ahead!
Links to All Heibel Media Sites
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REUNION  BOOK LAUNCH & SIGNING OPEN HOUSE

Meet the Author, Pick Up Your Book and have it signed!
Tuesday November 4, 2014 
4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
@
WorkShoots, 1348 Front Ave. NW
Grand Rapids

More than 30 years ago I wrote a novel titled Stranger on the Beach.  I've since revised and updated it and called it Reunion.  

The novel tells the tale of Pam Candleson and husband Ron.  The story begins five years in the past when Pam, then Pam Mondy, leaves her abusive husband Ray to start a new life with Ron who leaves his wife and two kids behind.  After confronting her husband, he dies in a terrible manner.

Front Cover of Reunion
In present day, Steve Thorndyke is a young man who travels back and forth from the Void between life and death.  He travels there to help a boyhood friend only to be possessed by Ray Mondy's spirit.  Ray is hell bent on revenge against his wife and her lover for his death.  Ray escapes Steve and disappears.

Six months later, Ray resurfaces at Bay Haven State Park when Ron and Pam show up there for a vacation reunion with Ron's two children, now teenagers.  Steve also resurfaces there in the hopes that he can thwart the terrible vengeance Ray has in store for the unwitting Candlesons.

Ray escalates the terrorizing of the Candleson's to an unforgettable climactic ending.


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November is
NaNoWriMo 
National Novel Writing Month

Last year I started Metal Harvest, Book One of a fantasy trilogy.  This year I'll start book two with the working title :  A Single Throne.

The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write the first 50,000 words of a new novel during the month of November.  Last years goal was exceed by over 10,000 words.  The goal this year is to hit 68,000 words to catch up and hit the goal of 500,000 words in 2014.  

 I'll be updating the NaNoWriMo scoreboard daily at 4 a.m. at:

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 write365

 Write 365 Initiative  2014-15 Progress Update!

 
The Write 365 Initiative is a year-long project of mine to write at least 1 new page of fiction every single day for a year.  I keep a chart that is updated weekly on the website of my progress.  Follow this link to see the chart and read about the progress of all my stories:  http://heibelmedia.com/asiwrite365.html

Here is an up to date (as of 10/31/14) summary of everything I've written since I started this on April 11, 2014:

Met Goal Initiative 100%:  204 Days Completed Successfully of 204 Days!


 

1,077 New Pages Written Total!


 

364,061 Words Written 


 

Novels: 954 new pages total 
  • When Love Breaks Down:  723 new 1st draft pages written and FIRST DRAFT DONE!
  • The Metal Saga (Working Title): 231 new 1st draft pages written and FIRST DRAFT DONE!


Short Stories: 123 new pages total  

 

  • Spilled Cereal                              6 pgs.  Awaiting Final Edit
  • Wind in the Wires Revisited      11 pgs.  Finished
  • When Monsters Die Revisited    8 pgs.  Finished
  • Alone at Last                              4 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • A Night Without Television        11 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • Small Talk                                 22 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • I Want to Die                            10 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • When He's Away                        7 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • Gaps                                          7 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • A Lonely Man                             2 pgs.   1st Draft Started
  • Song Bird                                 12 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • Slipping                                      9 pgs.   1st Draft Completed 
  • Momma's Boy                           11 pgs.   1st Draft Completed
  • If You Knew What I Knew           3 pgs.   1st Draft Completed 

 

 

 


     

 

 

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 Writing 500,000 Words in 2014 as of October 31


 

 Total Words to Date: 364,061      

Words Left to Write 135,939

 Short of Goal by 52,377 words    

   

Novels: 318,249 new words written total 
  • When Love Breaks Down: 196,115 Words
  • Metal Harvest: 122,134 Words   1st Draft Finished

Short Stories: 45,812 new words written total 
  • Letting Go:  4,365 Words 
  • Bed Wetting:  1,440 Words
  • The Happiness Bug:  4.124 Words
  • At the Intersection: 1,926 Words  
  • The Glass Man:  1,575 Words
  • Spilled Cereal: 1,438 Words
  • Wind in the Wires Revisited:  2,851 Words
  • When Monsters Die Revisited:  2,040 Words
  • Alone at Last: 1,050 Words
  • A Night Without Television: 2,917 Words
  • Small Talk: 6,351 Words
  • I Want to Die: 3,010 Words  
  • If You Knew What I Knew:  825 Words
  • Song Bird: 2,674 Words
  • Momma's Boy:  2,781 Words
  • Slipping:  2,256 Words
  • A Lonely Man: 258 Words
  • Gaps: 1,883 Words
  • When He's Gone: 2,048 Words
     

See the Month to Month Summary of the 500K goal.  Follow this link to  www.heibelmedia.com
 blog

 As I Write:  My Blog  

 

Every Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 a.m. I post an article about writing.  It may be what I'm working on or something about stories and writing in general.  It's a fun and interesting look at how a writer looks at things.  I'm looking for people to read the blog, comment on the articles and follow my blog.

Here are the topics from October:

Click on a topic to go there.

  

You can get to the blog via the Heibel Media website or easier yet this link:   heibelmedia.blogspot.com 

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 What's Ahead in November?

   


Short Stories:
  • Inactive for NaNoWriMo
Novels:
  • Write AT LEAST 50,000 words of the new fantasy novel, book 2 of the trilogy and win the NaNoWriMo challenge!
  • RELEASE AND BOOK SIGNING OF REUNION
Write 365 Goal / 500,000 Word in 2014 Goal:   
  • 68,000 words written 
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