I am super glad its December. November is always a weird month for me, and NaNoWriMo is a big
part of that. It always seems to me a comedy of a great many errors; chalked
full of the best intentions and a seven course Turkey dinner.
SEVEN COURSES.
Or at least it seems like that when you are the only one
cooking.
Also, I have five children; therefore I must look at 3,547,369
crayon turkeys made from their hand prints during the month of November alone.
So it comes as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about my life that I
tend for fail spectacularly at NaNoWriMo every year. Except for ME! It always shocks ME!
As it stands I tend to have no problem finishing novels in any
other month of the year (and two in September) heck I will COMPLETE four books
in December—complete four because I am wrapping up the three books I started in
November.
Yeah, I started three books in November. I always do that to
myself. I don’t go into it thinking HEY I am going to totally screw myself over
by attempting something that might be mathematically impossible. Yet it happens
every time anyway.
I started my book (which is secret btw) three days late, two
days after that I decided I had to finish the Hollows Series right now or I am
going to DIE. DIE. Which if fairly humorous because the second book in the
series hasn’t even been released yet, and since Larry Kollar can’t quit his day
job and do nothing but edit my books I am not really in a rush.
But after convincing myself of the need to write that book—which
is titled Ice Bridge Forest—it occurred
to me that I’d need the second book in the Granted series before the 4th
book in the Hollows series.
So damn it all, that was the train of thought that lead to my
ultimate destruction.
Oddly, that is what it’s like in my head every day.
