My Goal

I'm proud to announce that I'm taking up the NaNoWriMo challenge this year - to write a 50,000-word novel in the space of a month. While I've written more "novellas" than I can count, none of them have been quite that long. Nor have I written them in one month!

I've had this novel bouncing around in my head since we lived in Chicago. In fact, I've got about 5 drafts of the first half of the book under my belt. However, I never finished and soon lost those copies within months of moving back to Maryland.

So, I've been sitting here for the past month or so writing out a pretty extensive outline to help me along and it looks like I might actually meat the goal! And, in all fairness to the contest, the novel is COMPLETELY reworked from the orginial - the only thing that's staying the same is the end, and I never even got around to writing that before. :)

Anyway, that's what's going on in MY life, or will be. November looks like it's going to shake up to be pretty packed for us. I'll be getting up early in the mornings to write and staying up in the evenings. This is something that I have to do... I've been wanting to do it for so many years, but I've always chickened out last minute.

Plus, with my photography being put on hold til the new year, possibly later, I'll need some creative outlet. Wallowing in depression hasn't helped! :(

So, anyway if you talk to me or catch me online, poke me and tell me to keep writing. I'll need the motivation!

xoxox,
Kim