Well. That was a month.
NANOWRIMO 2013: Began well and kept a steady pace, but wrote on shuffle without enough story arc in my mind. Last year I’d spent 6-8 months thinking about the first 2/3 of the novel which equaled 58,000 words. This year, I think I wrote all the scenes I’d thought about and ended with 35,000 words. Still, not shabby. Biggest month of the year for writing.
The distraction for NANOWRIMO was last years NANOvel ALL IS SILENCE, and oh, what a wonderful distraction it is. The last week of October was spent getting Electronic Advanced Reader Copies out, and what a technomess that was. Day 2-3 of NANO were spent formatting the ARCs to print (Word count: 605 for 2 days!) and also on Day 19-20 with a rewrite of the last chapter for the 2nd batch of Print ARCs (Word count: @2K for 2 days!).
Also set up and ran a GoodReads giveaway and had 1170 people request one of the two copies and 550 people and it to their ‘shelves.’ Will run another at the end of December for Autographed Pre-Publication Editions. Really, really love GoodReads.
So, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS is sitting at about 40,000 words including pieces from the first book and the first couple “chapter” that will mostly be cut. About halfway there. I am going to take a tip from Jamie Rubin (a great blog on writing and going paperless) and aim for 500+ words a day every day from now until the end of 2014. That’s within spittin’ distance of 200K. Sounds crazy? Yes, but if I want to be a writer, writing everyday is the key. And 500 words? That’s nothing!
Thanks for coming along for the ride. My other goal for the next month are some content- based blogs and a guest blog. Oh, and finish the final post ARC edits, get the book to the copy editors, finalize the formatting, get the cover update done, order books, read books, research and write and teach and buy presents and cook food and ferry kids and…
Happy December!
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