I'm a Writing Masochist

I wasn't sure I was going to do it this year, but my friends over at AW convinced me too.

So, yes, I'm going to do NaNoWriMo, again. And I'll probably fail, as always. And I'm not being pessimistic when I say that. I'm just warning you that there is a very high chance that I won't make the goal this year. But I'll try anyway.

My plan is to finish my current novel. Yes, technically, you should start something fresh. But I have about 80,000 words left to write in that thing, so knocking out 50,000 in a month will be good. And then, once I have Moon Dragons out of the way, I can toy with this new White Crow idea that's been whispering seductively in my ear for the past two months.

So who's with me?! If you are, you can find me at the NaNo website as Kricket. And of course, I'll be doing weekly updates here once November starts.

Thanks for reading and have a great Wednesday and Go Write Something!*



*Yeah, that's more for me than you, but you can take that advice too. :)

NaNoWriMo?

It's that time of year again. Halloween is just a week or so away and then it will be November. The month my eldest turns 3 and then Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, and that whole "Write a 50,000 word novel in a month" thing.

Alas, I am not really participating this year. "Why?" you ask. Well, I'm in a really good spot with my Dragons in Space novel and I don't want to stop. Technically, you're supposed to start something new for NaNo. Dragons was my NaNo project last year so I'll continue to work on that this year. I'll still try to get 50k out in one month, so I'll be there in spirit with the rest of y'all.

If you'd like I can still do weekly updates (I should be doing that here anyway *sheepish grin*) and try to find something encouraging to say to those of you who are seriously trying to win that NaNo badge.

In other news, I'm working on a cool ghost story and should have that up by the end of the month. It's partly for the AW Blog Chain and partly in conjunction with Daniel and his ship in bottle blog. It's been fun to write and I'm hoping to have the first draft finished by the end of the week and then I'll edit the crap out of it.

So that's what's been going on. Keep an eye here for the ghost story and for updates during November. :) Happy Thursday and thanks for Reading!

Getting Back on the Horse

This past week I have begun working on edits for White Crow. It took me awhile to figure out a new system on how to get any writing done when I spend most of my time holding a baby and a bottle. And along the way I learned that I can hand write faster than I can type with one hand. I'm hopeful that if I keep up my current pace I can finish round one of edits and maybe finish a second round by the end of the month. I'd be thrilled if I could have this manuscript ready for beta readers by July.

I've decided to keep Dragons in Space on hold until I get White Crow as edited as possible. I'll jump back into it while I'm waiting for others feedback. It's killing me to wait, I really want to work on this project, but I have to get White Crow done first or I'll never finish it.

In other news, over at Absolute Write there is a new Sci-fi/Fantasy challenge starting for this summer. I'm super excited about it and I plan on participating. As I do I'll share my work here as well. So look forward to that over the next few week.

And that's all I got for now. Thanks for reading! Have a good weekend!