Well, I did it,
I got 50000 words written in the month of November.
I'm going to take a day off now. I reached my goal and it'll give me a chance to decide whether I would prefer to keep working on volume 2 or start draft 3 of volume 1... decisions, decisions...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Long-dormant Blogger
I know... I know...
It's been over a month since my last entry. In my defence it's been a crazy month.
First off... as my twitter feed suggests... I have been job hunting. Still no luck. Still trying. Seriously considering packing it in and going overseas. Probably will if I get my book published.
That's been the other batch of major crazy. I've finished draft 2!
I have been starting to get feedback from my draft 2 beta readers and have a major revision job to do for draft 3 based on their advice.
A revision job I will start... in December.
There is a reason for that, and it is the third reason why I haven't been blogging lately.
This month is November. November means NaNoWriMo and I am an official contestant. My NaNo is the first 50000 (or more) words of volume 2 of Walking the Radiant Trail. We meet some new faces, get to know some old ones better and discover a few protagonists are really total bastards. As such it's a lot of fun to write and very engrossing. Since November 1 I have written 33197 words. (Actually it's a bit more than that but I went and deleted about 1000 so they don't count.)
I have to say that writing at that continuous level of intensity has only increased my love of the art.
My brother is coming back to London tomorrow. Personaly, and this is just me speaking, if I had escaped the evil vortex of despair which is London, Ontario I wouldn't come back for love or money (at least not a second time). Notwithstanding the extent to which I wish I was in Toronto, Chengdu, Beijing, Barry's Bay (living off royalties in the north country) or basically anywhere that isn't this artless, culture-free, hum drum, well I could go on with the invective forever, anyway notwithstanding the fact that I would personally rather be anywhere else I understand his reasons for coming and look forward to seeing him.
I'll try to be a bit more consistent with blog entries from here on out but still do not expect daily posts in November. Too much novel writing to be done.
It's been over a month since my last entry. In my defence it's been a crazy month.
First off... as my twitter feed suggests... I have been job hunting. Still no luck. Still trying. Seriously considering packing it in and going overseas. Probably will if I get my book published.
That's been the other batch of major crazy. I've finished draft 2!
I have been starting to get feedback from my draft 2 beta readers and have a major revision job to do for draft 3 based on their advice.
A revision job I will start... in December.
There is a reason for that, and it is the third reason why I haven't been blogging lately.
This month is November. November means NaNoWriMo and I am an official contestant. My NaNo is the first 50000 (or more) words of volume 2 of Walking the Radiant Trail. We meet some new faces, get to know some old ones better and discover a few protagonists are really total bastards. As such it's a lot of fun to write and very engrossing. Since November 1 I have written 33197 words. (Actually it's a bit more than that but I went and deleted about 1000 so they don't count.)
I have to say that writing at that continuous level of intensity has only increased my love of the art.
My brother is coming back to London tomorrow. Personaly, and this is just me speaking, if I had escaped the evil vortex of despair which is London, Ontario I wouldn't come back for love or money (at least not a second time). Notwithstanding the extent to which I wish I was in Toronto, Chengdu, Beijing, Barry's Bay (living off royalties in the north country) or basically anywhere that isn't this artless, culture-free, hum drum, well I could go on with the invective forever, anyway notwithstanding the fact that I would personally rather be anywhere else I understand his reasons for coming and look forward to seeing him.
I'll try to be a bit more consistent with blog entries from here on out but still do not expect daily posts in November. Too much novel writing to be done.
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