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!
So, this is my novel as it was outlined and input into Scrivener. It’s hard to believe that those 17 note cards will get me to 50 thousand words by the end of next month. I wouldn’t be surprises as things evolve, the number of chapters increases. I’m sure that some of the characters will develop a mind of their own. They always do. But if I stick to this game plan or keep it as current as I can, I’m pretty sure I can rock this out with minimal head desking.
I added the word count widget from the NaNoWriMo website to the right, so you can check my progress any time. I’ll try to blog as often as I can. 4 more days!
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?
It’s October so the countdown to NaNoWriMo has officially begun! The NaNoWriMo website has been revamped, the new web badges are out, and people are flooding back to the WriMo forums.
This year, I will be writing a contemporary sci-fi romance novel called “Sweet Justice”. I’ve had the idea for a while now and I’ve been working on outlining it mentally for over a year. Now, I’m working on outlining in a more fixed form, I’ve got myself a bullet point list of events. Start to finish. I feel all organized…
Since I’ve been writing nothing but fantasy romance, I decided to mix things up a bit with modern day super heroes, arch villains, and a damsel capable of fending for herself. No distress here. Should be fun to see my heroine struggle between THREE love interests! Mwa ha ha!
And behold, I have written a blurb!
Between secretly spying on her employer, heavy office flirtations with the mail clerk, and an unhealthy obsession with super hero news, Justice thought that things were finally going her way. As the ChemPharm research facility exploded and demolished months of undercover work, Justice took some comfort in the arms of Ultraman as he whisked her away from the blast.
When a drunken midnight calling card meant for Ultraman attracted Blaze instead, Justice has the chance to tell off the lab saboteur. Only instead of searing jibes and insults, sparks start to fly between Blaze and Justice and his abrupt departure leaves her confused and angry.
Will Justice be able to pick up the pieces of her destroyed project? Will Justice have to choose between the super hero and his arch nemesis? And what about the mail clerk who fills out his dress shirts just right?
Elle Clouse 