I am a rebel.<\/p>\n
There. I said it. While most everyone around me is nervously putting together a plot and interesting characters for a brand new novel they can\u2019t wait to start tonight at midnight, I\u2019m just biding my time.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m about 30,000 words into book three of my Monster Haven<\/em> series. Tonight, I will open a new document and start the rest of the book. 50,000 more words will get me to 80k by the end of the month, which will be the end of the novel. If not, I\u2019ll write more than 50k. The important thing is not the 50k for me, it\u2019s getting to the words \u201cthe end.\u201d<\/p>\n This is how I\u2019ve done it for the last two years, and it\u2019s worked out really well for me.<\/p>\n The good news is that I\u2019m not actually cheating, despite the slight variance in NaNoWriMo rules to write something new from scratch. There\u2019s a whole section on the forums specifically for folks officially classified as \u201crebels.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m also a chronic planner, so, not only do I have a good-sized chunk written, I also have a pile of index cards and an outline.<\/p>\n And as a special bonus this year, I already have a full synopsis of over five pages.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason for that last part that\u2019s both awesome and terrifying. My editor needed a full synopsis so she could send it through to my publisher’s acquisitions team. This book, which I haven\u2019t even finished writing yet, is already contracted. This relieves all the \u201cWhat will I do with it when it\u2019s done?\u201d pressure, but adds a huge measure of \u201cHoly crap, I have<\/em> to get this done\u201d in exchange.<\/p>\n So, for this year\u2019s NaNoWriMo, Zoey Donovan\u2019s adventures with the Hidden continue in Fairies in My Fireplace<\/em>. Now that we\u2019re on book three, things are looking pretty grim. Somebody or something has destroyed the Board of Hidden Affairs, has kidnapped every Aegis in the country but Zoey, and has been capturing Hidden creatures. In an effort to escape whatever is after them, Hidden from all over have run to Zoey for help and sanctuary. She\u2019ll have to find and defeat the villain if she wants her house back, especially since members of her own family are threatened.<\/p>\n Tune in next week to see if I\u2019m still sane after the first week of NaNo. It\u2019s doubtful. But you don\u2019t have to be sane to be a writer. In fact, I personally think sanity holds you back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a rebel. There. I said it. While most everyone around me is nervously putting together a plot and interesting characters for a brand new novel they can\u2019t wait to start tonight at midnight, I\u2019m just biding my time. I\u2019m about 30,000 words into book three of my Monster Haven series. Tonight, I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[733,914],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo-2","tag-nanowrimo","tag-rebel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}