So I have been finding myself with a lot of free time and most of this time is used to prepare for the biggest event of the year for me. NANOWRIMO (NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth www.nanowrimo.org) is only 26 days away. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is a goal for authors to write 50,000 words in the month of November. Why they chose the month that starts the busiest holiday season is beyond me, but I'm not going to complain. Last year I only managed to do 26,000 words, but this year is a new year. I am actually using the first of my Hunter novels as my Nano, I figured that since I am really inspired for this book then I will be inspired to continue through the month.

As it is, I have been spending a lot of quality time with my characters and my outline for this event. I've been working hard enough that I can close my eyes and see my characters sitting there ready to talk to me, to tell me their stories. (This is the part that I start to sound crazy again) I've been working so closely with these characters that they are running around in my head, ready to come out. They are excited to get on with their story. Some of them are wanting to prove me wrong, others think that I have everything figured out.

I have adapted a few things this year that I want to try during Nano. I will have a folder with all my characters' information in it, so that I can have a quick reference to them, and I will have my outline, in both a hard copy and a electronic copy. I will also still have the ever famous sticky notes with me, with different color markers. I can't edit during Nano, but as soon as I finish the novel (Because it will be more that 50,000 words) then I will have to start the edits and the rewrites.  So the proposed schedule looks like this:

November 30th: 50,000 word goal
January 1st, 2010: First draft finished
March 1st, 2010: Final Draft finished
April 1sth, 2010: First Query letter

Pretty scary schedule, but I am determined. I'm tired of being left in the dust as the people around me accomplish their dreams. No longer will I deal with that. It changes, starting November 1st.


P.S. Bring me Vault during November, and you will be my best friend. :)

Tonight is the night that I get serious about writing. (Again, I know.) I read an interview today that really sparked me into get going. I have plenty of projects going on, now I just need to finish them. After finishing them, they need to be polished. Once polished, I will submit them for publishing. A process that is bound to take a while, but I am determined to have something either published, or have an agent by the end of the year. This weeks assignments for me are: Edit and rewrite Chapter One, of Book One (Yay for no titles yet!), continue editing Something Missing, (though I will admit I've kind of given up hope for that one. I may end up rewriting the whole thing.)  Though this is a busy week, and time of year for me, things must be done. :) wish me luck!

I hate to give up on things, but I am learning very slowly that I am not super woman. Nanowriomo is just not possible to finish this year. I hate the story and I wish I would have stuck with my original idea. Nope. I had to stick with the fact that Sara and I agreed to do a challenge story. Even though she didn't stick to it, I had to stick to it because my mind wouldn't allow me to do otherwise. The characters didn't talk to me, the story line sucked and now it's about 26,000 words of shit. Yep. Shit. I even think it rivals Dark Moon (for those of you who don't know, that's the first novel I wrote) Which had a very shitty plot line, but it still had a plot line. Which is more then I can say for this. Though I find myself already thinking about next Nanowrimo, and depending on where I am in my writing. I think I want to do something silly and just through all my characters into a room, sit back and see what happens. So as for now, I'm going back to my outline for my Egyptian story, and going to be working on that from now until it's ready to send out.

I had a dream about my Egyptian story and it makes me think that this is the one. Yes, I know I've said that before, but I really do think this is the one. It's original, and it's not vampires (Like everything seems to be, espeically with the release of the Twilight movie). It should be fun and spunky. I'm trying to get the feeling of it to be mixed with serious, and tense with the relief of humor in it. So far I think it's going to work the way I want it to.

I sent out "Charon" again, originally titled Fairy Story, and I have yet to hear back. Thought the first Flash Fiction place rejected it, she gave me a bit of feed back that helped. I think that once I exhust the Flash Fiction resources that I have I may turn it into a full fledge short story instead, so that it isn't has much as retelling a myth. We'll see though. That's just one project on my 2009 list.

Yes that means I'm already making plans for next year in the ways of my writing. My goal for 2009 is to have an agent by the end of the year. I think that would be awsome. So judging by the other two, or is it three now, novels that I have writtened and queried for. I have about six months to write the book and then to start querying for them. In the time that I wait for those queries to come back, I will be editing my butt off with Brandon and a few others to make it the best novel that I can. Wish me luck! On top of that, I am working on a strict writing schedual for next year, one that will allow me to achieve what I want this year.