Here's what I learned this year: writing a blog while you're writing other things and trying to have a life: not as easy as it seemed at first. Beginning to realize why other bloggers have such long silences between posts. I could list a long string of excuses, but really what it comes down to is, I got blog block. Not writer's block, my stories are going fine, but blog block: who the hell cares what I have to say?
Anyway, presuming that you actually give a goldfish cracker, what's new with me is I'm joining NaNoWriMo next month in an attempt to jump-start my non-online fiction. I have most of the plot already, and starting on November 1 I'm going to start to write. I thought it might be fun to chronicle my pain and suffering here, and I won't be suffering alone: so far my daughter and two of my friends have also signed up. (My daughter will be doing the junior version, since she's not 13 yet.)
I've been writing online but not so much off, and I'm hoping this contest will help me change that. After all, while I love my online stories and find them fun to write, I doubt I'll ever make a cent off of them. Not that that makes them any less valuable to me, personally, but I'm not going to lie: being a "real," published author has always been the goal.
So, onward!
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