We’ve been hitting NaNoWriMo pretty hard this year. Because of my involvement with an awesome group of writers, I’m hitting my goal of 2500 words a day with very little issue. They’ve convinced me writing sprints are the way to go and it shows in my word count.
Okay, let’s answer a few things.
First, what’s NaNoWriMo?
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing.
On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel.
https://nanowrimo.org/about
I’ve been a participant in NaNoWriMo for eight years now, and many of my works started out with this month of slamming out the words. DA: Doppelganger certainly did, it was my 2015 project. My first completed novel happened back in 2011, although that one hasn’t quite seen the light of day yet. So it comes as no surprise that book 2 of Draco Artifactium is coming together this month. We’re not even halfway through November and we’re over halfway to the NaNoWriMo goal of 50k words. This is but a fraction of what Book 2 will hold, but it serves as a foundation to the novel.
So what does this mean for the future?
I’m looking at getting Book 2 out early next year. Ideally, we’ll see the draft completed in the late December or early January. Once that’s out of the way we’re going to start polishing plans for book 3 and then jump into editing and setting book 2’s second draft and publishing draft. After that, prep for publication and onward to getting this trilogy tied together.
After that, we’ll see where the road takes me. If there’s significant interest in the world of Manta, we might keep playing there. There are other worlds I have in development, but right now Micara has my mind, and I need to see at least this first set of adventures through.
Okay, time to get back to those words. Those daily counts aren’t going to get themselves written.