This article references back to mid October when I posted the Comedy of Errors – My #SYTYCW14 Contest Entry where I basically explain how every time I plan to do something, things go horribly wrong and my plans don’t go as planned. This is a continuation of that post.
As many of you know, NanoWriMo is a time when authors dare to try to set time aside to write 50,000 words in one month – or the equivalent of a novel. My novel was already 10k words in, but I need another 75k or so to meet the minimum requirements for the publisher I plan to submit it to. I figured that it would work out well and that, despite all the things I knew were coming up in November, I could still tackle it. It might be difficult, but it would still be doable.
Once again, life laughed at my well-intentioned plans and said “Yeah. Right. Keep thinking that chump.”
Life is such a fickle bitch.
I knew, going into November that we were going to be signing for our first house, if everything went as planned, Nov. 14. Everything went as planned. We got the house. At which point we went into the flurry of pack pack pack pack pack, buy what you need for the new place, clean the new place before the movers come Nov. 23 etc. So from Nov. 1 to Nov. 14 I wrote around 6,000 words on the novel. Between the move date and end of November I wrote an additional 200-ish words or so. So my word count sits at a little more than 18,000 words.
That doesn’t mean I’m giving up on that novel or the other ones I’m working on, it just means that having a potential publishing contract by end of 2014 won’t happen nor will having something self-published happen this year. But it does mean I have time to unpack, write as I go and put out a quality piece of work that I can be proud of that I can then, hopefully, sell to a publisher.
If you want to see either of the current works in progress, including The Wolf Siren which is the one I’m trying to finish, check out the links at the top right side of the page.
