Posted 9:51 AM by Tim
First, I didn't make good on my promise. The novella was not edited in time... so it'll have to wait until after NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. I'll be working away at midnight to get a good jump-start on it.

Posted 10:40 AM by Tim
There are three days until November 1. The start of NaNoWriMo. I'm all charged up thinking about it. If only I could get rid of all the other stresses of life to write. That'd be sweet.

Posted 9:45 AM by Tim
Since this is supposed to be where all my writing stuff goes, I'm gonna put this here:

I've been working on a novella for a while now. It's been edited three times, and I think it's looking pretty good. It just needs a fourth edit now, and it'll be ready for peer review. I've put out a call to a couple people I know, and they're gonna take a look at it. I just need to finish the fourth edit.

I'd like to have it done by the end of this week, but that just doesn't seem like it's going to happen. Unless I get to work on it and really start getting things done.

So, to kick myself into gear, I'm going to make a commitment here on my blog to get the novella edited and sent out to peer reviewers by no later than October 29. That'll give me enough time to get in gear for NaNoWriMo, and leave my mind free to explore that story instead of mulling the novella.

Ultimately, the plan is to submit the novella to publishers, so I'm also going to have to start collecting a list of publishers interested in short fiction. There's bound to be a couple places I can submit the work, I just need to find them. I'm thinking, no less than three attempts at submission, but it'd be nice if I could find at least five places.

Posted 10:07 AM by Tim
NaNoWriMo is only a couple weeks away now. I've not had time to do any real planning on the story's plot. Gotta get to that.

Posted 10:08 AM by Tim
In three weeks, I'll be starting the writing fury again. I've got to get my writer muscles into shape! I think I'll need to start dragging out the laptop again... get some of those old story ideas fleshed out and finished.

I've got a fair bit of information about Hank now. He's really taking shape. I've got a few other characters to work with now, in the hopes that they'll reveal things about themselves, so I can figure out how Hank sees them. After all, nearly everything in the story will be from Hank's point of view.

I've got this plan to write a chunk of horrible, horrible fiction. It's in there that I'll be putting all the dares, idiosyncratic events and sheer craziness. The goal (for the first story-in-story) will be to be as cliche and hackneyed as possible. I want it to drip with wretchedness. Should be fun!

Posted 12:58 PM by Tim
It's NaNoWriMo time!

Well, it's time to start thinking about NaNoWriMo, at least. October is the run-up month before the big bash really starts.

I've got a couple of ideas, and I'm hoping that I can stretch one of them (or both should the first plan fail) into 50,000 words. Details on progress and so forth will be forthcoming, but let me give you the brief.

It's pretty much decided that I'll be writing a "diary style" novel. Much, if not all of the novel will be presented as diary entries of my main character (currently named Henry "Hank" Williams). I'm not sure what genre it'll end up in. Fiction for sure, but as for the sub-genre... no idea. Guess I'll just have to explore it.