Let’s WOW!

This month, I’m participating in WOW month with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s (WFWA). WOW stands for Work our Works in Progress. Unlike NaNoWriMo, it’s not necessarily about writing a novel in a month, but about choosing a writing, editing or querying goal for the month of February and concentrating on it. There are also daily online WFWA Facebook posts to promote interaction and connection between writers of women’s fiction.

For me, WOW is another opportunity to keep my focus on my writing and perhaps get close to finishing a first draft of a new novel under my pen name: Bridges DelPonte. I’m about two-thirds done and am pushing myself to finish that last third. Then it’s on to revising the initial draft and then soliciting feedback from beta readers…and then more revising!

My current project is a dramedy about a broke and broken twenty-something woman, Indigo Costa, who returns home to Key West after failing at her dreams of Broadway stardom. In unexpected circumstances, she reluctantly enrolls in professional bridesmaid training at a swanky Key West resort, locking horns with its domineering director and finding her own surprising path forward. Think The Devil Wears Prada meets 27 Dresses. There will be plenty of humor and tears to go around in this story.

I’ll let you know how I fare at month’s end. I hope I’m saying, “Wow, I finished my first draft!”