Yup! The crazily titled "NaNoWriMo" or National Novel Writing Month is just a scant three days away! I'm super excited and anxious as this is my first year attempting the grueling 50,000 word writing marathon in 30 days that is NaNo. I've been spending the past few weeks preparing, and I've pretty much got a solid story going. I haven't started writing yet, that would be cheating, but I have been writing up a ton of notes and making outlines.
November is also my birth-month, so instead of having a party or traveling somewhere, I decided to spend the month on NaNo as a gift to myself. I haven't had the time or energy or the reason to sit down and crank out a first draft in a short span of time. I've decided to make the time and I'm hoping that I'll get a decent first draft out of it and then spend December editing it before publishing it as an e-book.
I know most people would be scrambling to send off queries to publishing houses instead of going for the old self-publishing route of hard knocks. But really, I'm not the kind of person to wait around for 6 months to a year to receive a rejection letter from a publishing house and then have to resubmit it to another publishing house. Kind of a waste of time if you ask me. Sure the editing, marketing and printing is all handled by publishers, but for right now, I like the option of publishing something myself and being accountable for my own work as it stands. One day I'd love to be picked up by a publishing house, but I figure I have to prove myself before that can happen. H.P. Mallory's success story is just that, she decided to go the self-publishing route, used her marketing skills like a ninja, got really popular and caught the notice of a publishing house. Plus self-publishing looks like it's going to make it easier to donate to a charity as I can set the amount per book myself instead of having it written into a contract.
Anyway, enough rambling about my reasoning behind doing NaNo and what I plan to do. I should actually tell you what the hell I'm going to be slaving over...
The story I'll be writing will be called Thistledown and it'll be a paranormal romance/urban fantasy novel. I've been sort of planning out the next two books and I can't say much yet except that the trilogy will have characters from the same universe as another book I've been working on. It'll be fun to see the cross-over when everything is finished, I think. :)
Summary:
Thistle Finley is an herbalist with a mighty green thumb. Many folk in town think her a witch for her remedies and ostracize her for her talent. When her dog is hit by a car, her green thumb takes on a whole new set of abilities and she fixes her dog with plantlife; the vines healing and becoming the damaged parts, creating a half flora half fauna being. Thistle’s world suddenly turns upside down as she’s chased by black hounds, wraiths, assassin witches and a warlock who takes a hit meant for her. His name is Alder and he is on a mission from a secret organization of witches to protect Thistle because she is the last true Hedge Witch. She is the only witch left with the ability to meld plant and animal life, to heal what is broken, to create new life. And everyone wants a piece of her.
I'll have posts on each of the characters later and maybe a cover soon! :)
I can't wait to share this story with you! I'll be posting on the process of NaNo, excerpts from my story, and just share whatever is helping or hindering me from winning!
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