It’s National Novel Writing Month, starting today

Fire up your typewriters! Or advanced computational engines, as the case might be.

Writers occasionally gripe about NaNoWriMo, but I am not one of them. Learning to write is a bit of a struggle. For someone like me, sitting down to write 1,000+ words is a day that ends in “y” (and if I only do 1,000, I’m slacking), but it can seem like a terrifying and daunting challenge to someone who’s never done it before.  So if it helps someone get their 50,000 words down, why not do it?

Therefore, I bid all you NaNoWriMo-ers good luck!

Weirdly, for all these years I’ve been writing, I’ve never actually done NaNoWriMo. I always seem to find myself editing in November. The one exception was last year, when I started SOUL OF DRAGONS in October, and hoped to hit 50,000 words of the rough draft in November, which I did.

This year, I’m editing THE BURNING CHILD right now. However, as soon as that’s done, I hope to get cracking on SOUL OF SKULLS, the next book in the DEMONSOULED series. I might be able to do the first 50,000 words of the rough draft in November, but I should probably attempt to get some sleep at some point. Both these goals might be optimistic. 🙂

-JM