Another quarter has passed, lets see how productive I was!
Stealing The Wolf Prince Is Being Published, Let’s Celebrate With A Give Away!
I’ve signed a publishing agreement with Etopia Press! Stealing the Wolf Prince will be available in ebook in under one year. I’m super excited to start the editing process and get this project published.
Stealing the Wolf Prince was originally written in 2006 as my first NaNoWriMo win. Last year, I decided it had collected enough dust and I edit the manuscript and started sending it out.
Every step of this journey has been a tremendous learning experience and I know I am not done yet. I’ll keep you all aware of my progress. Lots of fun things coming in the next year.
To celebrate, I decided to do another giveaway! Follow the link to a Rafflecopter giveaway for a chance to win an ebook copy of Unrequited, a corner bookmark, or a crocheted coffee cozy. All hand crafted by me in some fashion.
Rafflecopter Giveaway this way!
As of last night, my NaNoWriMo novel hit 6k words. I managed 2k words a day, not a bad start. I know that there is a least one NaNoWriMo participant who has already reached 50k and that’s just nuts. In fact, there is another challenge that I recently learned about a competition called The Five Day Novel. Now, I like a challenge but even I am not that crazy. I’ll stick with a 30 day novel, thank you!
NaNoWriMo starts in less than two weeks!
To prepare, I’ve created an outline using Holly Lisle’s Professional Plot Outline course, available for $.99. Since I’ve never actually outlined, I figured I would consult an expert resource. Now I have my whole novel plotted out, down to the scene, from beginning to end. The course even pushed my ideas further than originally anticipated to new and fun plot devices. I am hoping that a complete outline will prevent writers block and keep me on track the whole month.
The next step, I will be adding all my scenes from the outline and sticking them into Scrivener. I bought Scrivener last year after my NaNoWriMo win with my winner’s discount and promptly forgot about it. A writer friend, Jonathan Fesmire, mentioned he enjoys the program so I watched the start up video and updated my program. Scrivener has this neat note card feature I can put all my plot points into. So where ever I pick up writing, I’ll know where I am and where I’m going. I could probably write the novel backwards, but I’m not that masochistic.
I will also be using the ‘research’ file system where Scrivener saves your files/images/sound bites IN SCRIVENER. So it’s all at my finger tips when ever I need it. I will be using this Character Chart for Fiction Writers to really flesh out my characters. It’s seven pages long and asks for things I don’t normally think about. It will stay right next to my writing and I can pull it up with a click or I can even use the two pane option and write while looking at it. This way, my characters wont have eyes that change color through out the book. My previous method of keeping a notebook isn’t ideal for me.
That’s the game plan so far. For being a pantser in the past, I feel that’s pretty good. If you are participating in the NaNoWriMo, what are you doing to prepare?