I've been neglecting my blog. November is National Write a Novel Month. After scraping my last manuscript a couple of months ago, I thought, what better time to start the next one? So, my goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That's roughly 1,700 words a day, not an easy task with a full-time job and kids at home. Not to mention, I have ridiculous OCD when it comes to self-editing. It seems I'm incapable of turning off that annoying self-editor who lives inside my brain to just WRITE. Write complete crap and polish it later. No, that polishing has to be done NOW, like yesterday, and it has to be shiny, shiny, perfect, glowing, reflecting off the ceilings.
I typically write adult funny mystery. I won't give away the storyline to the last manuscript I finished out of fear some brilliant writer, much better than me, will steal my idea, write it and publish it before my turtle-butt can set my other projects aside to finish the dadgum book cover. However, with my current manuscript, I'm turning a 180. I'm cleaning up my language, my humor, and silencing my dirty mind to write a Young Adult Dystopian Christian. I'm roughly 13,000 words in. I'll let you know how it goes.
Here's my question to you; have you ever thought about writing a book? We're only eight days in to November. It's not to late to catch up.
