Finishing Up November's Challenges

The last week of November presented so many challenges to my schedule. I'm so glad I survived. My oldest daughter and I were able to join one of the local church choirs for their Christmas production. While it was time consuming, we really enjoyed doing it. It threw me off my blog planning schedule, though. Oh, well! Such is life, or at least such is my life. LOL
Read on to see how I responded to each of the challenges for the last week of November.

#Nanowillow Positivity Challenge Days 22-30

This is more like a week and a half of challenge responses but the daily prompts were:

• Day 22 - What went better than expected?
  
• Day 23 - Share something that surprised you today.
  
• Day 24 - What did you learn today?
  
• Day 25 - What are your strengths?
  
• Day 26 - What kind of impact do you want to have?
  
• Day 27 - What will you do once Nanowrimo is over?
  
• Day 28 - What did you love most about participating in Nanowrimo 2018?
  
• Day 29 - When you look back on this last month, what are you most proud of?
  
• Day 30 - Share your final celebration!
  

#SeekingGiantsBookGiveaway18 - Days 22 - 30

I'm so excited because I won a prize in this challenge. :) It was fun to participate and spread the word about an author whose work I respect. Winning was like icing on the cake. The challenge prompts for the last week and a half of November were:

• Day 22 - Sowers Festival : Thanksgiving - I hadn't really solidified many of the celebrations in my fantasy realm so this one was tough. But celebrations are big in Bot'ha so it was the perfect time to do so. Now I've got two but the first one I created was the Arivesti Festival. I was going to make it a harvest festival but the name works better for a New Year festival, I think. So I created another name for the harvest festival.
  
• Day 23 - Shield - I love coming up with wedding vows, even though none of them have seen the printed page. I think book four might actually see this change, though. I'm particularly proud of these and having some confirmation from another published author helped encourage me to do so.
  
• Day 24 - Castle : Favorite Fantasy Realm - I couldn't pick just one. LOL
  
• Day 25 - Siblings : (Happy birthday to the hosting author's brother!) - For this one, I had to go back to Ripples. So far, it's the only book which directly deals with siblings.
  
• Day 26 - Training : Necessary Pain - This one was difficult. Both my MC's have some training to go through but the formal training isn't discussed much except at her having gone through it. As far as my hero goes, his is less formal and continues through his life.
  
• Day 27 - Elder Queen : Villain - I don't have a single villain in this book. It's more of a collection of individuals facing off against the related MC.
  
• Day 28 - Stars - I don't have constellations yet in my book but those are definitely going to play a part in a future tale. I'm going to have a lot of fun with that.
  
• Day 29 - Young Love - Yes, my MC do find they love each other but it's not an easy road for them.
  
• Day 30 - Giants: NaNoWriMo Wrap-up - I won Nano! Though I wasn't able to meet the really high goal I'd set for myself, I still ended up with a win and a good solid rough draft which goes from beginning to end of the story.
  

What's Next?

Honestly, I don't fully know. I'm reading through a series of historical romances with holiday themes. My hope is to finish them in enough time to send out holiday themed book reviews each Wednesday during November. If I don't finish the first one in time for next Wednesday, I'll likely wait until the following Wednesday to post at all.
You can still expect Monday and Friday posts from me. I'll keep you updated on what's going on with my journey as I work on the revisions for "Over Land & Under Stone".  One thing I'm struggling with is how my hero gets from where he is now to the exalted position he needs to end up in. And then, how does my heroine fit in? Will they be able to live a life together? Or will his ultimate end prevent this? I'm still undecided but as I work on the revisions, perhaps it will come to me. I'm still about 20k words short of a fantasy novel, so I definitely have room to play with different ideas.
Until next time, thanks for reading!