Barbara Neville's Blog - Posts Tagged "nanowrimo"

Coming down to the wire with my entry in NaNoWriMo: Hell to Pay, which is free , in progress and updated about every other day, on Smashwords.com this month. I have 46,485 of the 50,000 words finished. It looks like; in editing that I will be splitting it into two books, one in each series because my introductory chapter now spans a third of the manuscript. It is firmly based in 1885 Arizona, so a Cha'a Many Horses entry, while the second two-thirds is set in 2617 on Old Earth and it's surrounds. In any case, writing 50,000 words in one month is not a stretch for me, other than this particular November has some extra real life drama which steals away the hours. Nothing bad or sad, in fact a trip around our little planet, which I have seen my fair share of in the distant past. But, this newest adventure comes without parents to do all the shit work of planning and packing and getting jabs (not as painful as all the ones I got at 9 and 23 for me. I didn't even cry this time. Anyhow, it's a big planet and we should all strive to see more than just our own cultural neighborhood. International travel is enlightening, especially if you go on the economy rather than stay where the other tourists stay. Enlightening beyond anything you can imagine. My advice? Leave your safe little world and explore. Like Annie does in the SPirit Animal Series (Okay, blatant pandering, but you can ignore it). Cheers, Barb