NaNoWriMo

begins nov 1st. I hope you all will join me in the exciting yearly venture! Even though I will also be working on Book 2 (which may be put aside whilst I labor tirelessly to reach 50k in a month!) I am determined to finish this year. NaNoWriMo is a wonderful undertaking and this year I will regularly attending write-ins again. Excitement is here. Only a month until it begins.

So I hope to see you all at North Jersey Write-Ins!!!!

Holy Shick.

I discovered the best program ever which I am calling my digital dry erase board. Evernote rox. And I can now keep my thoughts and obsessive lists of names....organized. My index card filing was great but this makes it all right at my fingertips and while I will never replace my notebooks or office supples with digital means...It does make it easier to organize my thoughts for book 2. Which I have about 5,000 words done for. As well as 6,000 words on a short story which may someday be another novel. As well as notes for yet another novel idea. I have too many ideas. OH! queries are being sent monday so you can all get together and pray/chant/meditate for my success. I will be doing much the same. As well as not sleping until I hear back. I decided on three specific agents that I would LOVE to have. So I'm praying one of them digs my writing. Well. Off to tinker with Evernote some more.

Also. Totally watching bootlegged interweb editions of Trueblood and Dexter. Because I have not the showtime. Sad. And i'm hoping to catch some Dr. Who or Primeval today. Yummy British television makes me happy. off!

Draft 3!

So. After the first round of edits (which I focused mainly on the grammar and spelling) I am finished with draft number 2 and onto draft number 3. I was originally going to call this current version draft 2, but seeing as I did change some things around and added in an extra chapter...as well as reworking the ending, it will qualify as draft three.

Tomorrow I'm going to pick up Underground (FINALLY) and continue the greatness that is the Greywalker series. I really do enjoy Kat Richardson's writing a whole helluva lot. And her blog is pretty great too! If you haven't checked her out yet, do so. I mean it. It's a refreshing series and I am so happy to be out of the "maybe this anita book will be better" cycle. I have moved on, cast off my "ex" and sowed the greener pastures of my mind.

I took out a scene I thought would be integral in the novel but after re-reading it I figured I could redo it a little without the ....umm...extreme actions. I'm not comfortable with having it and I don't think it furthers the character or story. I can just as easily show the connection bewteen the characters with dialogue and less "intimate" matters. I'll keep it saved in case I change my mind for the final draft. but...I doubt I will. So.

Hopefully when I finish this draft I'll send out my query (giving me another week to put on final touches) and we'll see what happens. Yeah, the benefits of not currently working include having ample time to edit this novel.

until later kiddies!