December?
No, really, who screwed with my calendar. I could have sworn it was still September. Did I miss Halloween? Hope someone saved me some candy!
Anyway, happy Halloween, Thanksgiving, Winter! Christma-
Whoops, getting ahead of myself! This is actually my favorite time of year. The air smells crisp and makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. The crackling sound of a fire and an excuse to have hot chocolate (with marshmallows, of course) every night. It's all just, perfect.
In light of this beautiful season, I think my blog has finally found it's niche. Well, I don't know if it has anything to do with the holiday season, but whatever. I'm going to start doing book reviews. Now that my editing is done and the queries are sent and I have no more nails to chew, I've got nothing but time...Er, kind of.
So, please feel free to suggest books to me for review. I'll probably start with at least one book a week. I plan to get to 4-5 a week after a while. All genres are welcome (for the most part). I think I might pull some book titles from Bethanne Patrick's (TheBookMaven) Friday Reads! Such a great idea, encouraging reading!
This blog post as been brought to you from the pen of Jen.
Enjoy your holiday season!
And it begins...
There's a first time for everything, or at least so they say.
Blogging. Hm. A first for me indeed.
Well, here we go.
We are well into week two of NaNoWriMo, for those of you that live in a box and don't know what that is, it's the National Novel Writing Month. The mission: to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Sheer madness, and yet here we are at nearly 200,000 participants and over a billion words.
This is my second year participating in NaNo and I refuse to fail, even if I'm horribly behind on my word count. And before you get on me about it, I've got a reason. I'm hard at work finishing the final edit of Until Dawn. That has priority for me.
Does this mean that I don't plan to finish NaNo? Aw, hell nah! I just won't reach my personal goal of 65,000 words. My personal editing deadline is November 18th, so that I can submit queries before the agent's email counts go through the roof with NaNo submissions. A side note. When you write 50,000 words in 30 days, it's almost ALWAYS not ready for submitting. Work on your manuscript and give it the editing time it deserves so agents don't laugh in your face. I'm sure they're all cringing as we approach the first of December.
Anyways, if my edit is finished by the 18th, it'll give me 13 days to write 3,000 words a day and still hit the 50,000 word goal. Ta da. It's still possible for me. I don't like losing, especially when it comes to writing. Like I always tell people, we writers, we're a stubborn people.
For those of you participating in NaNo and feel like your word counts are falling behind, fear not, it happens to all of us. Don't feel bad when one of you buddies is 10,000 words ahead of you. It's your story, it'll be told in its own time.
This message has been brought to you from the pen of Jen,
Good luck and goodnight!
Blogging. Hm. A first for me indeed.
Well, here we go.
We are well into week two of NaNoWriMo, for those of you that live in a box and don't know what that is, it's the National Novel Writing Month. The mission: to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Sheer madness, and yet here we are at nearly 200,000 participants and over a billion words.
This is my second year participating in NaNo and I refuse to fail, even if I'm horribly behind on my word count. And before you get on me about it, I've got a reason. I'm hard at work finishing the final edit of Until Dawn. That has priority for me.
Does this mean that I don't plan to finish NaNo? Aw, hell nah! I just won't reach my personal goal of 65,000 words. My personal editing deadline is November 18th, so that I can submit queries before the agent's email counts go through the roof with NaNo submissions. A side note. When you write 50,000 words in 30 days, it's almost ALWAYS not ready for submitting. Work on your manuscript and give it the editing time it deserves so agents don't laugh in your face. I'm sure they're all cringing as we approach the first of December.
Anyways, if my edit is finished by the 18th, it'll give me 13 days to write 3,000 words a day and still hit the 50,000 word goal. Ta da. It's still possible for me. I don't like losing, especially when it comes to writing. Like I always tell people, we writers, we're a stubborn people.
For those of you participating in NaNo and feel like your word counts are falling behind, fear not, it happens to all of us. Don't feel bad when one of you buddies is 10,000 words ahead of you. It's your story, it'll be told in its own time.
This message has been brought to you from the pen of Jen,
Good luck and goodnight!
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