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WRITING BACKGROUND
I have written three books, as well as multiple short stories, and I am working on book no. 4. I started writing my first short story that I actually finished in 2020 when I had two months off from my internship, as the company figured out how to go remote, at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic. I wanted to treat that time as though I was a full-time writer so I didn’t feel like it was a waste and it was exactly what I needed.
Once I finished all my revisions of that short story (more of a novelette at around 10,000 words) I moved on to my first novel in July 2020. I let myself write the book as poorly as I needed to with the sole intention of me finishing it to prove that I could. I finished it in September of 2020 after writing 80,000 words in July and taking the month of August off.
Since then, I have written two more books, one in 2021 after tabling a couple of stories that I started but wasn’t ready for and then in February 2022 I started my third book which I wrote, revised multiple times, and started querying in July 2022. I am currently still looking for an agent for that novel right now.
WRITING PROJECTS
Book No. 4: I started writing my fourth novel at the beginning of September 2022 after starting a thriller series and realizing it wasn’t what I wanted to write and scrapping it. This book, project A and it is well underway. I am a little over 20,000 words into it and picking up speed. It is already winning over my heart and I am thoroughly enjoying it which is all I can ask for from a project.
October Writing Goals: I know that many people use October as prep time for NANO WRIMO, however, due to the fact that I am already in the middle of working on my current project, I am focusing on drafting that. My goal is to make October my highest word count month so far this year but I would like to write 2,000 words a day (or average that). I am also working on some short stories that I plan to submit to literary magazines along the way and I will give an update if and when any of those get published. I also have a goal that I will write more each day than the last for the whole month but if I fail one of the days then I only have to beat that word count as opposed to trying to increase over the previous day.
THOUGHTS ON NANO WRIMO
This is the year I will actually win NANO WRIMO. Last year I did 40,000 words and was quite close but I let myself slow down in order to finish book no. 3 in December and not burn me out. I will still be working on book no. 4 in November even if I write 60,000 words this month. However, I will most likely finish the book before I hit 50,000 in November. If this happens, then I will either write a bunch of short stories and novelettes or I will launch right into Book no. 5. (note: books 1-4 are not in the same series at all) This just depends on where I’m at with it and how much worldbuilding might need to be done.
HANDWRITING EXPERIMENT
I have also tried a new experiment . I’d started handwriting my short stories to try it out and found that I wanted to write the short stories more than my novel. I knew that I was still in love with my novel so I attributed it to handwriting. So, I decided to write a chapter by hand and I’m not sure I’ll ever go back. My brain works differently when I write by hand and I’m much less distracted. I will update this if anything changes.
WRITING SLOWER SO I CAN WRITE MORE AND BE MORE PRODUCTIVE
I am also trying to write slower in order to have to do less work in the revision stage and have a cleaner first draft. I hate revisions. I was trying to accomplish this when I was still typing out my first drafts. Writing by hand, however, solved this issue for me and slowed me down to the point that I was less likely to write bad ideas.
I am mainly a fantasy and science fiction writer but I enjoy all types of speculative fiction and plan on trying out a lot of stories in the speculative fiction category. If you are interested in more information and updates on my writing and publications, you can sign up for my newsletter. This is for publication announcements and at most a monthly newsletter. (I don’t have the time or energy for more than that.)
