November is still Novel Month

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I ditched NaNoWriMo even before they closed down, but years of using their hype to help myself along have put me on a schedule where November and December are my months to draft new novels. This year is no exception!

I have been contemplating the next book in the Seffi Wardwell series for some time, and began getting serious about plotting, planning, and outlining in September and October. Of course, since I was traveling and hiking a lot during those months, I wasn't ready to start writing November 1. I still wasn't ready to start writing Nov. 4, but as usual, I couldn't resist any longer, and jumped in. After all, I knew what the first scene was going to be.

So now I'm over 13,000 words into the book, and I'm plotting and outlining just ahead of my writing. Also: I don't know whodunnit. Seriously. Darn near everyone has a motive, some better than others, and no one has a cast-iron alibi (or at least, that's how I see things now. Of course, we haven't even reached the murder, so who knows?). I figure it will come to me at some point.

I don't usually write this way these days, but I'm game to give it a try. The point of my outlines has been to try to make the first draft less of a train wreck, and that hasn't really worked, so what the heck? 

Watch the counter in the side-bar of this blog to see my progress and help keep me honest!

Oh, at the same time I'm making final edits on Logged Off, and I'm editing photos, too! So here's a pretty picture of a Maine lake to go with the new book:

image of colorful trees reflected in calm water

 

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