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Not bad for a month of writing, considering I don't have much time to write. As you can see, I've pushed the total word count up to 120,000, so I fell a bit short of my original goal of getting one third of the novel written - now it's one quarter, and I fell a bit short even of that. Oh well. Quality over quantity, right?
Next month - er, this month, I mean - will be a bit more challenging. November is a very busy month at work, and we have a sales conference during the last week, which includes various dinners and evening events. All of them are work-related, so that means that last week after Thanksgiving is a write-off for writing. Oh, the irony! However, I tend to stay home over the holidays, so I plan on having several writing marathons to make up for it. I'm hoping to get to at least 55-60k words written by the time December rolls around.
Novel writing aside, I've been thinking of what I want to do next year. I have a few stories I'd like to finish for very specific markets: ParaSpheres 2, which will close to submissions at the end of March, and a pro-rate queer horror anthology called "Shadows from the Closet". I'd like to write a novella for (hopefully) Subterranean Magazine, and I have to think about what novel I want to start on after "Ruins" is finished. I have an idea for another stand-alone (also horror), but I'm not sure... I know it seems odd to be thinking of what I want to write next year, but I tend to flounder if I don't have specific projects ahead of me. These are the projects that excite me the most, so it makes me feel good to know that they're waiting for me. It's like a carrot in front of the horse. Or a nice little bar at the end of a rainy street - a much more apt metaphor for a writer, don't you think? :)
Not bad for a month of writing, considering I don't have much time to write. As you can see, I've pushed the total word count up to 120,000, so I fell a bit short of my original goal of getting one third of the novel written - now it's one quarter, and I fell a bit short even of that. Oh well. Quality over quantity, right?
Next month - er, this month, I mean - will be a bit more challenging. November is a very busy month at work, and we have a sales conference during the last week, which includes various dinners and evening events. All of them are work-related, so that means that last week after Thanksgiving is a write-off for writing. Oh, the irony! However, I tend to stay home over the holidays, so I plan on having several writing marathons to make up for it. I'm hoping to get to at least 55-60k words written by the time December rolls around.
Novel writing aside, I've been thinking of what I want to do next year. I have a few stories I'd like to finish for very specific markets: ParaSpheres 2, which will close to submissions at the end of March, and a pro-rate queer horror anthology called "Shadows from the Closet". I'd like to write a novella for (hopefully) Subterranean Magazine, and I have to think about what novel I want to start on after "Ruins" is finished. I have an idea for another stand-alone (also horror), but I'm not sure... I know it seems odd to be thinking of what I want to write next year, but I tend to flounder if I don't have specific projects ahead of me. These are the projects that excite me the most, so it makes me feel good to know that they're waiting for me. It's like a carrot in front of the horse. Or a nice little bar at the end of a rainy street - a much more apt metaphor for a writer, don't you think? :)
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