I prepped for National
Novel Writing Month. I knew my characters, plot points, twists and turns
(though more revealed themselves as I wrote), the beginning/middle/end. In
short, NaNoWriMo—bring it on! 50K words in 30 Days? Pshaw! I’m “winning” again
this year.
Except.
I didn’t anticipate my own life’s plot points and twists and
turns. The major plot point that is going to reenergize my professional
writing.
I’ve talked about needing
to sever my contracts with a former publisher. Then the search for a new home.
Well, it happened. On November 2nd I contacted a publisher, and on
November 3rd I was offered a contract. I signed the contract on the
7th and was off to the races.
My NaNo word count
suffered. I blew through my banked words and instead racked up deficits because
my focus was re-directed. I needed to spend my NaNo hours working on
editing/revising a manuscript that can go through the production process.
Hard as it was to admit, I
couldn’t accomplish the NaNo goal AND work on edits on a short time line. But,
after talking to others and myself, I realized my priority has to be my career.
Getting the first book in
my culinary series out is definitely more important than getting 50K done on
book five this month. If the other books in the series are queued up, it will
be a loooong time before the publisher is ready to see Tequila Mockingbird in the queue. I have time to finish that book.
In fact, that might be next November’s project, to finish what I started this
year.
So, it’s not New Year’s,
but here is my resolution:
Turn in the best possible
version I can of Pastabilities by the
end of the month, and spend my NaNo-dedicated time to this project.
If I finish sooner than I
think I will, I’ll get back to NaNoWriMo and Tequila Mockingbird gladly. But, if the past is prologue, ain’t
gonna happen.
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What happens to a big goal project like NaNoWriMo when “life happens”? Sharon
Arthur Moore shares what is going on with TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD and PASTABLILITIES.
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What happens to a big goal project like NaNoWriMo when “life happens”?
@Good2Tweat shares her new resolution for PASTABILITIES and TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD.
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