November 21, 2007
Good Bye NaNo
So today I decided to give up on NaNo. This goes against the grain for me as I typically don’t like to give things up once I’ve dug my teeth in, but I need to face a few facts. Having written a little over 20K, I doubt very much I’ll be able to reach 50K by the end of the month. And I just have too much happening right now to dig in and get it done.
Sigh.
On the upside, I’ve written about twenty pages more than I normally would have in a month. I will of coarse continue to write said story, but back to my thousand words per day. This will give me time to continue rewriting Blood and Bone, catching up on crits that I owe, (thank you crit partners for being so patient.) fixing the last few chapters of Witch and, blech, bookkeeping. (I may need to face a few facts about that last one, but I’ll wait until the new year.)
On the Living Lies front, I’m just finishing up my book blurb. Writing this has proven not all that dissimilar to writing a query or synopsis–except maybe worse. It’s one thing trying to get your work in front of an editor or agent, but quite another trying to convince a potential buyer to shell out X amount to read your book. Oh, the pressure. 
I also received my signed copy of the contract yesterday. I put in my filing cabinet with the printed version of the MS, the CD and all my notes from when I was writing it. Then I stared at it while thinking about writing the first draft nearly seven years ago. It was a real full circle moment.
Mood: Content
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Writing a blurb is a nightmare, isn’t it? BUt to hold that contract in your hand is sooooo good. Bookkeeping, one word, EW. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving, don’t know if you celebrate it and last, start a Myspace page woman and broadcast your book…
Bella
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:51 pmThe blurb is done. Yay! Bookkeeping is not. Sigh. Canadian Thanksgiving is in October. I hope you had a lovely holiday. Myspace? I think I’ll need to pick your and Kath’s brains about that. As my Virgo mind doesn’t understand its purpose.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:50 am