Thursday, November 10, 2011

NaNoWriMo and Queen of Men

I have been working on my book for NaNoWriMo, which challenges you to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. I'm a bit behind, but I have come up with an outline for my new as-of-yet unnamed novel. I only have about 450 words of the actual book so far, but I am excited to see where it goes, even if I don't end up hitting 50,000 words by the end of the month.

After working 12 consecutive days due to elections, and due to a need to burn several vacation days, I will be taking all of next week off. This will be the first time I've taken that amount of time off, without having somewhere to go. It'll be pretty great. It is my plan to commit a large portion of time during that week to my novel Queen of Men. I could, of course, spend that time focused on my NaNoWriMo book instead, but it has been my intent for some time to use this week for Queen of Men. That book is completed, and is currently sitting at about 47,000 words. It needs more description, detail, and development, and more explanation of things. Maybe after this coming week, it will be ready for the first person, other than myself, to read it (that would be my better half). I will also likely spend some time during that week on the NaNoWriMo book, as well as some time on other things (cards).