News: NaNo, But Still Posting!

Hey everyone!

So, fun fact. I got horribly, horribly stuck in Act 2 of this draft of Ten. Not for your usual reasons of hitting writer’s block, I knew what was coming next, I was just having difficult slogging through a fight scene to get to my mid-point. And once I get stuck like that, I start thinking about the earlier parts of the book, which as I think I mentioned in an earlier post, I was having to revamp part of the first part of Act 2 to remove a character and bring the problem more the focus. And that made me think of the beginning, which wasn’t very actiony at all.

This revelation happened so conveniently close to NaNoWriMo. So yep. I’m scrapping what I have and starting over…sort of. I’m going to pull bits and pieces from the first draft, because I like them and see no need to rewrite them, but for the most part, I’m starting from scratch, revamping my old plot a little to fix the front… I still need to plot the second half of Act 2, but I’ll get there! So hopefully by the end of NaNoWriMo, I’ll have a complete second draft (which is the first complete draft), which will need a few edits around Christmas time once it’s had a chance to set, and it’ll be ready for an agent (and I’ll be much happier for it).

Now, with me doing NaNo, my free time is shot. But never fear! If you venture to the Star Stable Diaries landing page (or hover over it on the menu and click on the Diary Entries), you’ll see we’ve started breaking those up into smaller bite-sized sections (usually four or so) about the same size of our normal blog posts. So while there won’t be any reviews or random thinking, there will be part of the next diary entry every day, starting Monday next week. (Yes, I finally finished it.) So enjoy those, and I will be back with reviews and such in December.

Just in time for Christmas reviews, wee! (Because until after Turkey Day, don’t talk Christmas with me.)