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Decisions, deciscion, decisions...
I finally finished the first draft of my vampire book and will start revising it this afternoon. I also finished one short piece of HP fan fiction, and will do another one for an xmas exchange. The big question is what to pick for my next long piece of fiction. At the moment I feel like my mind has turned to mush, which happens once in a while. I think I'll do NaNoWriMo again this year, which takes care of November, but I still need some kind of glimmer of a plot, or at least a theme and a direction.
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is a challenge to produce a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. There's a web site where you can sign up, forums where you can discuss your progress with other exhausted writers, and a word count program that tallies your final product. There aren't any prizes, just the satisfaction of getting it done.
Over the past couple of years I've written science fiction, murder mysteries, fantasy, and horror. I have no particular prejudice for or against any particular genre, but each of them has its own conventions and I feel more comfortable with some than I do with others.
The two things I have never tried are romance and westerns. I was raised on Zane Gray and I have a stash of Barbara Michaels romantic suspense books in the library so I suppose it's a possibility. I even live in a rural town where about 1/3 of the residents own horses and half of them own guns. It's fertile territory, that's for sure! Decisions, decisions, decision...
I finally finished the first draft of my vampire book and will start revising it this afternoon. I also finished one short piece of HP fan fiction, and will do another one for an xmas exchange. The big question is what to pick for my next long piece of fiction. At the moment I feel like my mind has turned to mush, which happens once in a while. I think I'll do NaNoWriMo again this year, which takes care of November, but I still need some kind of glimmer of a plot, or at least a theme and a direction.
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is a challenge to produce a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. There's a web site where you can sign up, forums where you can discuss your progress with other exhausted writers, and a word count program that tallies your final product. There aren't any prizes, just the satisfaction of getting it done.
Over the past couple of years I've written science fiction, murder mysteries, fantasy, and horror. I have no particular prejudice for or against any particular genre, but each of them has its own conventions and I feel more comfortable with some than I do with others.
The two things I have never tried are romance and westerns. I was raised on Zane Gray and I have a stash of Barbara Michaels romantic suspense books in the library so I suppose it's a possibility. I even live in a rural town where about 1/3 of the residents own horses and half of them own guns. It's fertile territory, that's for sure! Decisions, decisions, decision...