Novel Track and NaNoWriMo
Current Facebook Status: is up and at ’em. Lots to do and so little time to do it. Or something. At least she’s not so loopy she’s going on and on about candy pumpkins again ;).
Currently playing in the background: Playhouse Disney
EEP! National Novel Writing Month is only a month away!
Double EEP! Novel Track starts tomorrow!
Novel Track is ACFW’s answer to NaNo – four months a year, you set your own goal of at least 10K words and when you meet your goal, you get a badge to put on your blog or website :). My goal for October Novel Track [January, April and July are the other months] is 50K words which should finish my WIP [Work in Progress] – the sequel to Unbreak Her Heart. Well, it’ll finish the rough draft – which will be very, very rough, I’m sure.
I think I’ve decided on my NaNo project as well! I’m going to do something completely different – based in part on the Flash Fiction from Sept. 10. I wrote a couple paragraphs for a friend and outlined the basics in another paragraph – she liked it as much as I did :). I’m contemplating turning it into a Romantic Suspense book but that would mean research into things like Witness Protection ;). I’ve already started doing some other research – turns out a friend’s husband is on the board of an organization in town that my play a role, etc.
So – can I write 100K in the next two months?
Triple EEP!
Okay – yes, I can. I wrote nearly 65K last Nano and 100K the year before that [nothing I could whip into publishable shape but I did it!] so it’s possible. I just need to make sure I write 2K a day. I can do that. Um, yep. I can. [Technically, 50K a month is about 1667 words a day, but 2K a day gives a buffer for those days it doesn’t happen at all.]
One problem I anticipate having is writing in a vacuum. I have no beta readers/critique partners at the moment so no one to send it off to. Except maybe one. Hmmm… Will have to ask her about that. We’ll see how the writing in a near vacuum goes… ACFW has a critique group designed, as I understand it, to help with critiques and then help people find each other and break off into smaller critique groups. There’s an orientation of sorts the first 2 business days of the month [tomorrow and Monday] so there’s hope of finding someone soon :).
In order to get it all done, I need to make To Do Lists and stick to them! That’s my problem – I’m great at making them, not so great at sticking to them. Working on that too…
So I will be eeping for the next two months as I try to get this done. I’ll be posting my word counts and excerpts here [favorite sentence of the day maybe?] so watch this space!
The writing frenzy is about to begin!