Category: Misc Writing Update

NaNoWriMo drafting

I’m taking part in NaNoWriMo this month, my third year doing this. Last year I was able to complete the 50,000 word challenge, which gave me about 2/3 of my draft done for that novel.

This year I’m planning to do the same thing for another novel in that same series. With several life events needing attention, it’s been a challenge to keep up with the “par” word count for each day. But yesterday I was able to write over 4100 words to catch up for the day, and month so far. So I’m in good shape.

I’ve found that I like this fast-drafting method, this writing the first draft as quickly as possible – without hesitation or excuses or editing-as-I-go. It’s thrilling, a little bit scary, and I get a lot written. With this, I’ll have at least 2/3 of another novel drafted at the end of the month!

Keeping busy…

So many things going on simultaneously right now. I’m loving it.

Getting the last few details set for the publication of Duplicity of Power, book 1 in the Wild Heritance series. (Yay!)

Still working on pulling together the pages for Bye Bye Magpie – they’re looking great (thanks to the artist)!

Some minor revising of the novella in the Wild Heritance series – getting close to ready for beta readers on that one.

Starting the first revision of book 2 in the same series – and have already added two new chapters.

And finally, getting myself ready — mentally more than anything else — for NaNoWriMo. My plan (right now) is to work on the draft of book 1 for my fantasy trilogy (a different series than the Wild Heritance series). I’m hoping to get most of that written during NaNoWriMo. Looking forward to November 1!