November Books: 2/6 (Cold and Hottie)
Howdy, howdy, squiders, hope your November is going well. Sorry about missing last week. I wish I could say that it won’t happen again, but experience tells me that we’re going to be real spotty come December.
So, we’re almost three weeks into November. If we’re going at Nano pace for a goal of 50K, we should be at 31,673 at the end of today.
I’ve not written today, so as of yesterday, I’m sitting at 21K and some change.
Now, in theory, being 10K words behind should be tragic.
But I feel great.
First of all, even though the book is not good, I’m enjoying writing the story. And all the problems the book has can be fixed in revision, if I so choose. And maybe I won’t choose! Maybe we’ll write this and just use it as a starting point to get back into everything else. Just writing is amazing.
(There are parts of the book I really like. The book within the book is super fun to write. And I have a side character who is my absolute favorite. And now we’re far enough in that we can really get into the meat of the story.)
Second of all, while completing 50K this month would be amazing and is the goal in an ideal world, my real goal is 35K, and we’re fine for that. Plus I gave myself four extra days because I started four days late.
Just writing has been energizing in other ways as well. Like, I feel like myself again. I participated in #questpit over on Blue Sky. I wrote (probably terrible) submission materials for World’s Edge and submitted it to a couple of mentor programs. I’ve sent out 10 queries, when I haven’t sent out any since August.
This was the right choice. Not only am I excited about all the author stuff again, but it’s allowing me to be creative as we head into the holiday season, which is never a good time to try and do anything serious.
Maybe we’ll do a writing-only break until, like, February. Really recharge all the batteries.
Anyway, I feel amazing, and I hope you do too.
See you next week!
