Greetings All!
Well, it is the end of November, do you know where your novel is? I finished NaNoWriMo over the past weekend and made it to 50,001 words. I have to say that I enjoyed the last half of my vampire novel more than the first half. It needs mega editing and I don't know if I'll go back to it, but I may later on.
Once I finished NaNo I picked up the YA dystopian I had been working on and am up to 22K on it. I am enjoying writing about our world after a devastating war that destroys civilization as we know it. No one has electricity except the city that used to be known as New York. And they only have it on and off because they are guarded by the military. If any of you are Star Trek fans, remember the Cloud City episode where the rich lived in a perfect city with art and music and had all the food they wanted but the miners who lived below ground had to forage for food and lived a harsh life? Well, my novel is something like that only it has zombies in it!
I also finished my novella and sent it off to a potential publisher. Fingers crossed.
As we finish out 2011 I was thinking about my 2012 writing goals.
1. Sell my book(s) to one of the big six with a healthy advance (might as well dream big!)
2. Finish writing and then editing the YA dystopian.
3. Find a teaching job at a university teaching creative writing.
4. Start a MFA program.
5. Continue to write and be able to make a living from it (again, dream big!)
What are your writing goals for 2012?
I hope those that participated were able to finish their NaNo novels and can add a winner's badge to their website/blog/whatever. I added one to my website.
Take Care, Until Next Time,
Kathleen
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Yay for finishing NaNo! I didn't participate (I never do), but during November I added 35,000 words to a novel, wrote and revised a complete 20,000 word novella (it's a novella by the publisher's definition, anyway), and wrote 16,000 words on a new YA novel. So my combined word count is over 50,000, but it wasn't all on one project.
My 2012 goals aren't formulated completely yet, but I'm hoping to sell an urban fantasy novel that I've had trouble finding a home for, maybe to one of the big six, and also hoping to sign with an agent once I have a project that's agent-worthy. (Which may turn out to be the aforementioned urban fantasy novel, if the publisher that has it now doesn't accept it.)
Good for you for finishing NaNo! It was my first year participating. I did make the 50,000 word mark, but I found it more difficult that I had imagined. Life, as we all know, gets in the way sometimes. I wasn't always able to write everyday.
My nano novel needs major edits/rewrites but I think I'm going to stick with it. I thought about ditching it half way through NaNo, but now I want to see it through to the end. I don't know if it'll ever be anything worth publishing, but I want to finish it anyway.
Goals for 2012:
Find an agent.
Have successful sales on the two novels I have releasing - one in July and one in November. That would help with my next two goals which are:
1. Contract my Young MG adventure
2. Contract my YA Sci/Fi Romance
Michelle
Author of Concilium, available July 2012
Concilium: The Departure, November 2012
www.Michelle-Pickett.com
www.Conciliumbooks.com
CONGRATS on finishing NaNoWriMo. I got my badge. : )
Haven't even started thinking about my 2012 writing goals.
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