The month has rolled on again then. Can’t believe how quickly the first half of December has disappeared beneath my feet. Time is running way too short these days.
November was interesting, naturally I did the whole NaNoWriMo thing, which didn’t go at all to plan. In fact, it was so bad I pulled the plug on the story I created for the month – it was too weak to bother with, so I went back to one I had been working on prior to the start of the games. I did have to cut back the word count, to match what I’d already typed up, and to make it easier to keep track for word count through the last few days, but I didn’t have a problem with that. Besides, it seemed fitting that this year’s NaNoWriMo be the second in the trilogy which I started at last year’s NaNoWriMo. Theoretically I’d like to finish the trilogy next November, but the story lines I keep thinking up are just hopeless, not one worth the effort, so not sure I’ll be able to do that, there again, I have ten months to come up with something, so fingers crossed inspiration will strike.
I will admit I had written the novel out long hand in 59 days from the end of August, and it turned out not to be half so long as I thought. I’d thought I’d made 60k, but in the end it was only 42k, so I edited it up to 50k, mostly by adding the details I’d deliberately omitted so I could get on with the story when writing long hand. To be honest, I don’t remember a time I was more relieved to finish a book. Not relieved as in happy achievement, but relieved as in “got that monkey off my back”. So much so, in fact, that I haven’t bothered to pick it up again since. I know I need to, there’s loads of edits required.
Talking of edits, I’ve done a mass of freebies in the last couple of weeks, everything from, “this is really good” to “oh my God no!” Still, it keeps the brain firing. And I have a science fiction novel coming in for a full edit in January which should be interesting.
Have decided that 2015 will be a year of short stories, I’m going to leave the long novels for a bit and concentrate on getting more shorts together, might even get enough sorted to put a collection together. Fingers crossed.
So the long and the short of it is that I’ve been busy, busy, busy – just how I like it.
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