November 30, 2014
At the end of the NaNoWriMo initiative.
I reached 14,038 words in November. This was an achievement for me and is more than usual. I did some short story work and some on my novel. A ‘win’ there is 50,000 words. That’s hard to do, even for professional writers like me. Plus, I’m doing a corporate day job, living my life, raising the child, cooking, cleaning, et cetera. I can’t just lock myself up like people with supportive spouses can.
Also, to be fair, I got sidetracked by some television work I was doing (more on that in another post), which took a couple of weekends from me.
I highly recommend the wonderful pep talk by SF author Brandon Sanderson. I really love his analogy about the scuba diver. If you love to write, keep writing. I think he’s onto something there. I’m not as happy when I’m not writing. Life keeps intruding 🙂 but it’s all material, too.
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November
Robert Sawyer announced he was going to do the National novel writing month sprint earlier today. I looked it up and decided that it sounded like a great idea. Robert is a very good SF writer and some of his work has been made into great TV as well. Check out his site at http://www.sfwriter.com (yes, he has that URL.)
So, today I signed up at http://nanowrimo.org
They suggest you try to write a 50,000 novel in the month of November. It’s a great deal of writing for a busy single mum with a corporate job, but it’s also a good challenge for me. November’s usually a hard month for me, so it could be good to be very busy.
I will try to use the initiative to finish my novel. I’m at 57889 words now. I need to get to the end. I don’t know how many words it’ll take to get to the end, but that’s what I’m aiming for.
Stettler Museum Typewriting machine from the Stettler Independent
