I think I have my NaNoWriMo Entry for 2015. I don’t mean that I have written it, that would be against the rules, as entrants are not allowed to even begin writing until tomorrow, but I have the title, and that is always the first step for me.
I’m not sure that I should give you the NaNoWriMo Entry title yet, perhaps I should try to eke out the suspense. On the other hand, knowing it is not going to change your life, so I doubt that you find it particularly exciting anyway. I want to call the book ‘One Night in Annwn’, but I am not going to help you anymore for a while. If you don’t know what Annwn is, you will have to look it up yourself. It is on Wikipedia (there you are, a clue and I said I wouldn’t help).
Why don’t you join us in NaNoWriMo? I think that there are usually about twenty-five thousand people taking part scattered all around the world. We normally keep in touch with a local group by Skype (free) messenger service and egg each other on to achieve the minimum average daily word total of 1,666 (50,000/30 days).
That may sound like a lot to a beginner, but it is only five hundred in the morning, another five hundred at lunchtime and seven hundred in the evening (or something like that).
I do not know what the prizes are for achieving that goal this year, but everyone who writes the 50k wins, not only a
NaNoWriMo 2015 Winner’s Badge
few. The best prize for me is the free books: hardback and paperback. However, there are lots of other benefits of a NaNoWriMo Entry too, one of which is the lasting friendships you can make with other members of your group.
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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.
