Hello Chaotic Galaxies Fans!

As most of you probably know, April is Camp NaNoWriMo, an event which I look forward to participating in every year. (technically three times a year if you include the Official NaNoWriMo and July’s Camp NaNoWriMo) This April was no exception and I’ve pretty much been having one of the best Camp experiences I’ve had so far. I have surpassed both my official goal of 50k AND my stretch goal of 75K! In fact, I’m nearing the 100k mark which is absolutely amazing. The last, and only other time I hit 100k I was competing with D.P Balding to see who could write the most. (A fact that resulted in the completion of Chaotic Galaxies: The Plagued first Draft)

As much as I love to share my success with everyone, its not really about bragging (maybe a little), we all compete against what we’re capable of. If writing 10k in a month is what�� you can push yourself to do, than that accomplishment is just as big and awesome as my 100k! It’s not about comparing your numbers with everyone else, its about coming out of the event feeling like you’ve accomplished something awesome! And really, if you attempted Camp at all, you have accomplished something awesome. The world needs those words, so sit down and write as many of them as you can!

I think one of the most important thing is finding what works for you to get those word counts out. Some people sit down and write huge chunks at a time, while others find having music playing helps them write, or a bunch of short stints which apparently works well for me. Once you find that one thing that motivates you, its all magic from there! Motivation is a tricky thing and sometimes you just have to follow where it leads.

This Camp NaNoWriMo I was all set up to continue writing Chaotic Galaxies: Into the Mist but found that my motivation was leading me towards a zombie novel I’d started a couple years ago but never got past the first Chapter. I had been working on the novel, now titled “Anti-Bodies” for the WriYe Genre Stretch for March and kept telling myself that I was just going to write one more day on it, and then I’d switch back to CG: Into the Mist. Apparently my motivation had other plans and I kept on writing “Anti-Bodies” until about halfway through the month I concluded defeat and changed my novel on the Camp Site to that novel! If you can find your motivation to write a specific novel or story, it can make writing that story so much easier than when you’ve got to fight lack of motivation to write what you want to write.

Unfortunately for those of you who are fans of my short story, you also know my updates have been lacking as my motivation has pushed me to continue “Anti-Bodies” and not work on the short stories that I want to fill my website with. Luckily the novel is only two Chapters away from being finished so hopefully I can get ahead on those short stories that you’re all waiting for. Thanks for being patient with me as always.

As for “Anti-Bodies”, I have no idea if it’ll ever see the light of day again, but it’s certainly been fun to write. Who knows, maybe one day in the future I’ll pull it off the shelf, dust it off and make it shine!