Again with the no NANO?

Utter failure.

I had high hopes. I have a few chapters of a pirate story that just never got out to sea. I flat out gave up.

I'll admit it. I did rotten, terrible, no good and nasty this year at NANO. I had other writing deadlines come up and I'm still battling a whale of one...so I dropped my novel in a month project.

Can't say that I've really missed it. I had a helluva time getting into the "groove" with that one and it seems to happen any time I try to write in a different time period. That's a bit disheartening, seeing how my next big project was supposed to be a historical. Bottom line: They're TOUGH!

Lots of love and respect to those writers who can churn them out like nothing.

On October 30, I sent that Silhouette Romantic Suspense partial out as requested. I'm currently working on a partial geared toward Intrigue, but am finding it harder than SRS...which focuses on the love story. I like the love story. The serial killer part is creepy and dark and though it needs to be written, it's not nearly as fun as the chemistry and the stolen glances.

I'm just sayin'.

To Nano or not to Nano...that is the question

Believe it or not, I've NEVER, EVER Nano-ed. Or, as I should clarify, I've never successfuly Nano-ed. I've given it a whirl, twice now, and haven't shown up to write on about day three or four. And from there, once you are behind your daily 1,500 words, it feels as though you'll never catch up, so what's the point? Indeed.

Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)has managed to make me hate myself (as a writer) for about 30 days... two years running. But still...STILL...it lingers. It's in the shadows, just outside of my vision. It hangs out in the dark corners of my house. In the backseat of my car. On those damned pop ups that bother me while I'm online. It's always THERE.

"Beat me, Harper...I bet you can't. You can't even make it a week, Harper..."

The problem is that such a gi-normous failure just about sucks the life out of you until Nanowrimo officially ends at the end of November. You don't want to work on your WIP bc you are so far behind in Nano counts, what's the point? So you can go an entire month NOT writing or working on your WIP out of guilt and shame.

But still. I made the choice on the ride in this morning to give Nanowrimo a go. And since I'm just finishing the edits for my SRS partial (that goes out this week to Silhouette!), I won't have any real, pending work that needs to get muscled through...why not?

And why not tinker in the sub-genre I'm most interested in, but have yet to attack? PIRATES! Oh yes, ladies and gentlemen, Harper wants her very own Pirate Novel under her belt.!

So as the plan sits today, I have the next two weeks to work out the research and the plot basics that I want to work on....and November shall henceforth be known as Pirate Month around my neighborhood.

Updates to come...