Fallen Behind

I have, through no fault of my own (wait, that’s a lie, it’s completely my own fault), fallen far behind on the word count for NaNoWriMo.  I need at least 6,200 words this afternoon to catch up.  I have less than 5,500 words.  Yes, you read that right, I have…

Continue reading

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow, and I am ready.  This will be my third official NaNoWriMo, but my fourth time to write 50,000 words in only a month. The first year I tried this I was so inspired that I did it again the following February. This year I’m…

Continue reading

Week Two

I have been blogging for just over a week so far and, not so coincidentally, today is the first day of the second week of my second “Write a Novel in a Month” month. To write 50,000 words in February requires an average of 1,786 words a day. That means…

Continue reading

Book Excerpt

Here are the first two pages of my book. What do you think? Am I wasting my time? “Milady? Pardon me, milady.” Deana hurried to catch up with the townswoman crossing the otherwise deserted street. She had never visited Rakart’ver before, and she had expected to see folk running errands…

Continue reading