National Novel Writer’s Month is in November, and the guys at NaNoWriMo have a writing contest every year to see if you can write 50,000 words of a new novel within 30days (you can plan and research before Nov, but no writing until 12am Nov. 1st).
I started Nov. 4th of 2008, and I had a blast. I have yet to find a publisher for my LDS romance, Lacy’s Choice, but I have had some positive encouragement from the publishers who’ve rejected me. (The final manuscript is just about 85,000 words, so 50,000 is really only a good start on your novel.)
Nov. of 2009 I wrote a sequel to Lacy’s Choice entitled My Dear Joe. It turned out shorter than Lacy’s Choice, around 78,000 words, and I haven’t revised it as well as I did Lacy’s Choice, but I’ve pretty much decided that I don’t want to stay with the LDS genre.
This year, with a baby coming in October, I’m seriously doubting I’ll have time to do justice to a NaNo project … I’m more doing it to keep my user name active … and because I think I’d miss it if I didn’t do it at all. I’m going way off the LDS genre and writing a little sci-fi novella about a town being attacked by aliens. Honestly, it’s all for fun, and who knows if I’ll get more than a page or two written.
So, if anyone’s interested, go to NaNoWriMo.com and check it out for yourself. It really is a blast!
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