Back into the swing of writing
By Mike Jastrzebski
It’s three in the morning and the rain and wind woke me a few minutes ago. I should have had this blog written yesterday but we moved the boat Saturday when the wind turned to the SW and we didn’t have internet service at the new anchorage.
Not having internet service is a curse and a blessing. It allows me more time to write with fewer distractions, but I am planning to offer The Storm Killer
free next month (4/19/13-4/21/13) and I have been setting up some advertising with BookBub and I didn’t want to miss any messages from them.
The good thing about no internet is that it forces me to concentrate on my writing, except there’s that weather thing. Rough waters and high winds are distractions in themselves when your home floats on the water and a fouled anchor can result in a catastrophe. This makes it hard to keep one’s mind on writing.
Okay, so it’s just another excuse, but then I don’t need much of an excuse to put off my writing. Since this past year has been a boatwork year, I haven’t written much besides this blog for some time. I’m slowly getting back into the swing with a couple of hundred words here and a couple of hundred there, but I know it’s not enough.
I have an aggressive writing plan for our stay in the Bahamas. I want to complete a first draft of my new Wes Darling mystery, Stranded Naked Blues, and the first hundred pages of a fantasy novel I have been thinking about writing for over twenty years.
The book is tentatively titled The Believers. A quick blurb would be Lord of the Rings meets Lord of the Flies, and I plan to publish the book as a serial, publishing 75-100 pages at a time.
Will I be able to do all this in three months? Well only if I spend more time writing and less time playing, something that won’t be easy sitting here in the Bahamas where the islands call out, “play, have fun in the sun.”
To give myself a little kick in the ass I’ve signed up at NaNoWriMo to write 50,000 words in the month of April. I’ve done it before, the question is will I let the beauty of my surroundings distract me.
I’m taking a break from the blog next Monday and turning things over to fellow Write on the Water blogger John Urban who asked if he could have another day this month to blog about something he came across while doing some research that he thinks our readers will find interesting. I don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to reading what he has to say.
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