Well, well, well, would you look at that! November is ALMOST OVER. It’s been a blur of words, and I missed my usual Saturday update last weekend. But to make up for that, here I am with Know the Novel Part 2—a frabjous linkup by the darling Christine Smith! (You can find Part 1 here and find out what my current work-in-progress, Dead Magic, is all about.)
Before we get started, I must confess: I WON NANOWRIMO.
Well guys, we’re HALFWAY THROUGH NANOWRIMO. If you’re doing it too, how goes the writing? Week 2 was busier for me than the first week, so my word counts are a little lower. But a) things are still fun, and b) I’m in the muddy waters of unplotted story now, so yaaaay.
That was a bit of sarcasm right there.
Whew, the first week of NaNoWriMo 2019 is in the bag! I had noooo idea what to expect from myself. Not only is it my first time participating in the NaNo challenge, but I was wondering if I’d be too stuck in editor brain to even write a messy first draft—especially if I had to write it fast.
Well. It’s messy all right, but I’m actually proud of the progress made!
So today I’m borrowing a page from Christine Smith’s book (pun totally intended) and doing what she does during November: I’m going to give you a fun little recap of the first week. Partly because that’s all I have room for in my head right now, and because this is a way to share what’s on my writing desk with YOU!
I figured out a new way to tell time, and it’s not clocks. It’s Instagram. Somehow everyone on there moved from Anne Shirley’s “I’m so glad we live in a world where there are Octobers” quote, to panicked shrieks of “NANOWRIMO COMETH!!!” This all happened in a synchronized movement across my entire feed, so either every bookstagrammer is telepathic, or we all copy each other. (Which, y’know, is a valid option too.)
In actual news, October was a productive writing month, I’m still in love with Stranger Things, I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving, and got a drastic haircut!
By the way, my brother Josiah @ The Steadfast Pen had a story called From the Mind of the Dead published on Havok and it was EXCELLENT. If you’re a member, you can still read it!
