NaNoWriMo

Even though I have to look at a calendar every day at work, it suddenly occurred to me yesterday that October is almost upon us again. That means that it won’t be too long until November is also upon us.

Instead of doing like last time and writing in November-December, I’m going to be trying to write in October-November. So I guess I’m about to get really busy again.

What all needs to be done? I need to:

• Email Carady the latest revision of Amaranth
• I need to finish editing Verdant and email it to Carady and Denise
• I need to quit playing with that other idea for the time being
• I need to get focussed on Ash because it’s going to be the longest of the series to date (I’m shooting for 100k minimum)

It doesn’t sound like all that very much, but there’s still a lot of editing to do for Verdant (partially because I had to go back and fix all the italics and boldface from the editing copy, where it all disappeared) and I only have about 300 words on Ash already scripted out… some of which I want to scrap. I think I’m going to dump a character that I like but probably won’t be able to keep going the rest of the series.

One thing I have to say about Verdant that makes me still a bit proud: one of my prereaders has come to detest one of the characters I wrote. I meant for her to be completely despicable – and I would say that I’ve succeeded. As a writer, that’s a nice thing to hear. I have to say, though, that I’m looking forward to hearing that from buying readers.