Irritating side note: I just discovered Hotmail has, at some point over the past few months, completely deleted my old account. So much for a good 5 years worth of emails and contacts. I’d transferred most of it over to gmail already, but damned if that’s not irritating.
Anyway, rocky start today. Maybe I should have gone with something different. I’m not sure I’m feeling this book right now. We’ll see. I don’t think I’ll get anything done this weekend, since I’ll be out of town, so I’ll have a lot of catching up to do next week. I also still have to finish up my Secret Santa story. Ugh.
End word count today: 1,535, just shy of the minimum goal per day. Here’s the first couple hundred words. (more…)
We’re just a few weeks away from this year’s NaNo. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, thousands of people across the country (world?) get together and brow beat each other for the entire month of November to write a new 50,000-word book by the end of the month. It is insane! We have little spreadsheets to chart our progress and everything. Last year I threw myself into it rather at the last minute. I started off strong, but soon stalled out and ended the month with something like 10-12,000 words. And even that was a mess.
I have a simpler story idea this time, and over the next few weeks I’ll be attempting to come up with an outline. When you’re trying to pump out a couple thousand words a day there’s not really time to stop and think about your story.
Unless I come up with something different, I’ll be writing about the protagonist of “Daughter” and his quest to find his lost daughter in a land overrun with the undead. The time is now, and the setting is here, so there won’t be much in the way of world building necessary. I can jump right in with the story. If anyone has a Texas locale you want to see overrun with zombies or other horrors, let me know. 
I have no idea why I’ve been on such a horror kick lately.
The upside of this for you, my gentle readers, is that, in theory, I should be posting something here every day. Each evening, perhaps, or morning, I’ll post a few hundred words of what I’m writing. It’ll probably be out of context and make no sense, but it will be something to read nonetheless. Also, there’s a strong chance it will be crap. When it comes to NaNo, quantity beats out quality.
If you’re a writer and joining in on the NaNo craziness, feel free to add my as a buddy. I go by flakbait.
