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Quick Hits
I tend to ramble on over on my other blog, Staking the Muse, so I’m hoping to keep this GoodReads blog a bit more concise, as well as writing/reading oriented. No promises, mind you. I am, after all, prone to chaos and disorder.
Anyway, some quick hits…
* Summer Lust, my contemporary M/M novella about self-esteem has not only been queried, but I received a request for the full manuscript this morning. Fingers crossed for Tyler and Cody!
* I also sent a single query out for Man Whore, the first in my Personal Demons series. I have a very rough outline for the rest of the series and have already fleshed out the second story.
* I’ve been to a few blogs since Fallen’s release and have a couple of more guest posts to write soon. Visit Staking the Muse for updates and links.
* CRANK, my online serial about two best friends and vampire hunters will continue next month, despite my participation in NaNoWriMo. Crandall and Mike have been invited to bring their band to a vampire night club. They wouldn’t dare. Would they?
Thanks for dropping by! Happy reading!
Anyway, some quick hits…
* Summer Lust, my contemporary M/M novella about self-esteem has not only been queried, but I received a request for the full manuscript this morning. Fingers crossed for Tyler and Cody!
* I also sent a single query out for Man Whore, the first in my Personal Demons series. I have a very rough outline for the rest of the series and have already fleshed out the second story.
* I’ve been to a few blogs since Fallen’s release and have a couple of more guest posts to write soon. Visit Staking the Muse for updates and links.
* CRANK, my online serial about two best friends and vampire hunters will continue next month, despite my participation in NaNoWriMo. Crandall and Mike have been invited to bring their band to a vampire night club. They wouldn’t dare. Would they?
Thanks for dropping by! Happy reading!
The Storyteller and NaNoWriMo
I’ve been working on my NaNo project every day. To be honest, I’d be writing this much even if it wasn’t November. Because of that, this will be the last year I officially participate in NaNoWriMo. Let’s face it, I don’t tend to remember to update that website after the first two weeks anyway, so I never technically “win”.
Is that so true? My first book was published last October and I have a second under contract. That’s a bigger win in my book. Fallen was written at a quicker pace that even NaNo requires, and the other, Man Whore, was last year’s NaNo. I hated it (Man Whore) by the third week of November, and eventually moved on to something else. A few month’s afterwards, I picked it up again and figured out why I got the big Suck Vibes off of it. At the time of its acceptance (not long before this year’s NaNo started) I had gone from hating it to not only loving it, but planning out several other books to follow in the series.
Is NaNo everything it’s cracked up to be? Sure it is, if you know how to use it. Can NaNo be bad for some writers? Absolutely, everyone has different writing styles and techniques. I’m not going to take sides, but I will admit that NaNo has been very helpful for me and, at the same time, I have designed other processes for completing my stories that work better for me.
How so? Well, I won’t bore you with the details, but sometimes a story isn’t ready to be told, and sometimes it flows at a daily pace of 2,000 words or more. For now, I’m on track for a NaNo word count and that isn’t counting blog posts, or the weekly CRANK freebie that will still be completed throughout the NaNo competition. This is my job. I love it, but it’s still a job, and writing words daily is the main skill required to continue the work I love. It’s time I admit that I don’t need things like Resolutions and NaNoWriMo to be a storyteller.
Is that so true? My first book was published last October and I have a second under contract. That’s a bigger win in my book. Fallen was written at a quicker pace that even NaNo requires, and the other, Man Whore, was last year’s NaNo. I hated it (Man Whore) by the third week of November, and eventually moved on to something else. A few month’s afterwards, I picked it up again and figured out why I got the big Suck Vibes off of it. At the time of its acceptance (not long before this year’s NaNo started) I had gone from hating it to not only loving it, but planning out several other books to follow in the series.
Is NaNo everything it’s cracked up to be? Sure it is, if you know how to use it. Can NaNo be bad for some writers? Absolutely, everyone has different writing styles and techniques. I’m not going to take sides, but I will admit that NaNo has been very helpful for me and, at the same time, I have designed other processes for completing my stories that work better for me.
How so? Well, I won’t bore you with the details, but sometimes a story isn’t ready to be told, and sometimes it flows at a daily pace of 2,000 words or more. For now, I’m on track for a NaNo word count and that isn’t counting blog posts, or the weekly CRANK freebie that will still be completed throughout the NaNo competition. This is my job. I love it, but it’s still a job, and writing words daily is the main skill required to continue the work I love. It’s time I admit that I don’t need things like Resolutions and NaNoWriMo to be a storyteller.
