So yeah, Nanowrimo and stuff
Oct. 30th, 2008 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperIt probably won't surprise any of you that I will not be formally participating in Nanowrimo this year, for much the same reasons as last year: i.e., nasty medical crap that's gone on this year, and still trying to polish off the novels I've already finished.
For those of you not following my working writing journal, or for those of you who are new to listening in, I have two novels in the editing queue:
Lament of the Dove: Epic fantasy, first of a trilogy. Think "muskets and magic" rather than "sword and sorcery". Currently under active query, although that's stalled a bit since I've been dealing with the aforementioned medical crap. I do however have an offer from an agent to reconsider the work if I edit it down hard. So my main goal here is word count reduction; ideally, I need to pull this book down under 120K.
Queen of Souls: Not queryable yet. Urban fantasy, with Greek gods, a sequel to the Hades and Persephone myth. The second draft is now finally underway in earnest, but needs to get some serious legs under it, ideally by the end of the year. I'd like this one out there getting queried along with Lament by the time Faerie Blood comes out.
Which leads me to thinking that instead of doing a Nanowrimo, I should be doing a Nanoedmo instead this year. The two goals here would be pulling Lament down under 120K, and getting as much progress done on Queen of Souls as possible.
I'm feeling ambitious. Let's see if I can pull this off. For those of you tackling Nanowrimo in earnest, good luck to you all!
For those of you not following my working writing journal, or for those of you who are new to listening in, I have two novels in the editing queue:
Lament of the Dove: Epic fantasy, first of a trilogy. Think "muskets and magic" rather than "sword and sorcery". Currently under active query, although that's stalled a bit since I've been dealing with the aforementioned medical crap. I do however have an offer from an agent to reconsider the work if I edit it down hard. So my main goal here is word count reduction; ideally, I need to pull this book down under 120K.
Queen of Souls: Not queryable yet. Urban fantasy, with Greek gods, a sequel to the Hades and Persephone myth. The second draft is now finally underway in earnest, but needs to get some serious legs under it, ideally by the end of the year. I'd like this one out there getting queried along with Lament by the time Faerie Blood comes out.
Which leads me to thinking that instead of doing a Nanowrimo, I should be doing a Nanoedmo instead this year. The two goals here would be pulling Lament down under 120K, and getting as much progress done on Queen of Souls as possible.
I'm feeling ambitious. Let's see if I can pull this off. For those of you tackling Nanowrimo in earnest, good luck to you all!
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