Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Five Weeks

It's been five weeks since I last checked in.

I thought I would note my latest writing activities.

1) I finished the editing project I was working on for someone else.

2) Every year, my boys and I celebrate fall by writing short children's stories. This year I wrote Naughty Neville with my boys for Halloween. It is based on Jane Austen's Cassandra, a short story that Jane wrote and dedicated to her sister Cassandra about a little girl who is naughty all day long and at the end of the day she is perfectly pleased with her exploits.

3) I updated A Novel Existence as a young adult Halloweeen story about ghost love.

4) I got a first draft of Fenton and Belina written. Fenton and Belina is a short story inspired by the folk song by Kate Rusby called Radio Sweethearts. It needs work but I like where the story is right now in the first draft stage.

5) On October first I decided to write a new story. Since then I wrote an outline, made character cards, did research, planned two Italian vacations, and wrote the first 10,000 words of Amelia Rider.

I can't wait to see what I do in the next five weeks.

Oh wait...I just remembered...I have to do all the things I put off and delayed over the last five weeks while I focused on my writing projects. Dang it....
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2 comments:

Letterpress said...

Sounds like you're a candidate for NaNoWriMo: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

They write a novel in a month.

I've always wanted to try it, but never have. Some of my pen-pals have, though. One person I know even revised and published hers.

Your output is amazing. Congrats!

October 8, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Wife and Mother said...

I've heard about nanowrimo before but it has never interested me.

Part of the pleasure of writing is developing the scenes, thinking about them through the day, building them in my head, and then gushing them out onto the computer at night.

If I tried to do it all in one month I would drive my family insane and maybe miss out on the pleasure of creating in order to meet a random deadline.

Besides, most of my writing is probably crap. No sense in dropping 80,000 words onto a page just for the sake of word count if I miss out on the point of the exercise, which for me, being that writing is a hobby, is the enjoyment of the process, not necessarily the end result.

But I don't begrudge anyone else the adventure of writing a novel in a month. I say good luck if you ever try it. It sounds like quite a ride.

October 10, 2010 at 9:35 AM

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