Hey guys! So October's been a slow month for blog posts. :( It's just been so busy and I haven't even had enough time to do a lot of book writing. I hope for November I'll have more time to write on here more because I really do love writing blog posts and updating this place.
So I knew Nanowrimo was coming in a month, but it hit me this week that it starts in two weeks!! Two weeks November begins and so does Nanowrimo and... I'm feeling sort of scattered and stuck with my writing. I mean, I want to have Project Hellion revised and ready to publish at the end of November. I'm in the middle of revising Sterling Silver 2.0 (that I will update on Wattpad once I'm finished) and then once I'm done with Sterling Silver, I have Blood Brother to work on... So, it's not that I don't have projects to work on. I have a lot of stuff I am and could revise, but for Nanowrimo I want to work on something fresh. I like working hard to get to 50 thousand words and I like getting to the end of November and feeling accomplished having written a whole book or almost a whole book in a month.
I looked on the website on Monday this week and I realized that I've been doing Nanowrimo for three years. My first Nanowrimo was in 2015 and you know what book I wrote for it? Weapon Icean. Weapon Icean was my first ever Nanowrimo book. For the whole year of 2016 I got that book ready for publication and published it in December 2016. You know what book I wrote for 2016 Nanowrimo? The sequel to Weapon Icean. At the time I was calling it Project Khione. But then that one just wasn't right. It didn't sit well with me, so I spent 2017 on and off working on it until November came around last year and I decided it needed to be completely rewritten. So, for Nanowrimo 2017 I rewrote Project Khione, which is how the book that will be published next month came to be.
It's so cool to get to see and track that sort of progress over three years. Delphi and her cast of characters in Weapon Icean has been with me for three years!! I've been working on some version of her story, whether it be book one or book two for three years! That realization, it almost made me tear up a little bit. I'm not really sure why. Maybe because once Project Hellion is published, I'll have closed that door. Not all the way of course. The door will be cracked open because I feel like there's this side character I introduced in Project Hellion named Astoria who has some stories to tell. But for now, I feel like Delphi's story is closed. This story, this character, that I've been working on for three years will be finished so soon and it makes me really happy but also kind of unsure because I don't know what's going to happen next. I wrote Weapon Icean and then published a little too quickly. I should have waited. I mean I was only like seventeen at the time and I feel like I've matured so much more as a writer since then, but you know, I am proud of how it turned out. I'm proud that I took that leap. During 2016 I did extensive research on self-publishing and it just felt like the right fit for me at the time. For Project Hellion I feel the need to finish what I started. I'm going to self-publish it and share the ending of Delphi's story, but after... I don't know what I'm going to do. I have several stories I've worked on over the past three years, two of which I am immensely passionate and proud of, but I don't know what I'm going to do with them. To self-publish or start on the longer journey of traditional publishing. Wattpad has also become something that I enjoy a lot. I love sharing my stories on there and I don't want to stop doing that either.
Anyways, I kind of got off topic. I just have a lot of feelings about Weapon Icean and Project Hellion haha. And now I'm on the brink of a new Nanowrimo and... I can't work on Delphi's story this time. It's two weeks away and I have no idea what I'm going to write this year! It's both exciting and scary. I don't want to put a ton of pressure on myself and the book I decide to write. That's not what Nanowrimo has ever been about for me and I don't want it to become something that stresses me out. When I first decided to participate, I wanted to challenge myself. I do this year too, but I also want to keep to the fact that this is for fun. It's supposed to be a fun challenge. Yeah, there are going to be a few times where I'm going to get frustrated and put a lot of pressure on myself (that's just how it goes for me) but at it's core Nanowrimo is supposed to be fun and I want to keep to that.
So, yeah, this Nanowrimo is going to be different. It's the first Nanowrimo where I have so many (too many) options to choose from. This November will be a challenge and, I do love a good challenge when it comes to my writing, so it'll either go really well or... not so well. Either way I am determined to participate this year. I am determined to write something this year.
I hope to be able to post more over the next few weeks and through the month of November. Either way, I will definitely be on here more in December when my classes end. Have a great weekend and next week everyone!
So I knew Nanowrimo was coming in a month, but it hit me this week that it starts in two weeks!! Two weeks November begins and so does Nanowrimo and... I'm feeling sort of scattered and stuck with my writing. I mean, I want to have Project Hellion revised and ready to publish at the end of November. I'm in the middle of revising Sterling Silver 2.0 (that I will update on Wattpad once I'm finished) and then once I'm done with Sterling Silver, I have Blood Brother to work on... So, it's not that I don't have projects to work on. I have a lot of stuff I am and could revise, but for Nanowrimo I want to work on something fresh. I like working hard to get to 50 thousand words and I like getting to the end of November and feeling accomplished having written a whole book or almost a whole book in a month.
I looked on the website on Monday this week and I realized that I've been doing Nanowrimo for three years. My first Nanowrimo was in 2015 and you know what book I wrote for it? Weapon Icean. Weapon Icean was my first ever Nanowrimo book. For the whole year of 2016 I got that book ready for publication and published it in December 2016. You know what book I wrote for 2016 Nanowrimo? The sequel to Weapon Icean. At the time I was calling it Project Khione. But then that one just wasn't right. It didn't sit well with me, so I spent 2017 on and off working on it until November came around last year and I decided it needed to be completely rewritten. So, for Nanowrimo 2017 I rewrote Project Khione, which is how the book that will be published next month came to be.
It's so cool to get to see and track that sort of progress over three years. Delphi and her cast of characters in Weapon Icean has been with me for three years!! I've been working on some version of her story, whether it be book one or book two for three years! That realization, it almost made me tear up a little bit. I'm not really sure why. Maybe because once Project Hellion is published, I'll have closed that door. Not all the way of course. The door will be cracked open because I feel like there's this side character I introduced in Project Hellion named Astoria who has some stories to tell. But for now, I feel like Delphi's story is closed. This story, this character, that I've been working on for three years will be finished so soon and it makes me really happy but also kind of unsure because I don't know what's going to happen next. I wrote Weapon Icean and then published a little too quickly. I should have waited. I mean I was only like seventeen at the time and I feel like I've matured so much more as a writer since then, but you know, I am proud of how it turned out. I'm proud that I took that leap. During 2016 I did extensive research on self-publishing and it just felt like the right fit for me at the time. For Project Hellion I feel the need to finish what I started. I'm going to self-publish it and share the ending of Delphi's story, but after... I don't know what I'm going to do. I have several stories I've worked on over the past three years, two of which I am immensely passionate and proud of, but I don't know what I'm going to do with them. To self-publish or start on the longer journey of traditional publishing. Wattpad has also become something that I enjoy a lot. I love sharing my stories on there and I don't want to stop doing that either.
Anyways, I kind of got off topic. I just have a lot of feelings about Weapon Icean and Project Hellion haha. And now I'm on the brink of a new Nanowrimo and... I can't work on Delphi's story this time. It's two weeks away and I have no idea what I'm going to write this year! It's both exciting and scary. I don't want to put a ton of pressure on myself and the book I decide to write. That's not what Nanowrimo has ever been about for me and I don't want it to become something that stresses me out. When I first decided to participate, I wanted to challenge myself. I do this year too, but I also want to keep to the fact that this is for fun. It's supposed to be a fun challenge. Yeah, there are going to be a few times where I'm going to get frustrated and put a lot of pressure on myself (that's just how it goes for me) but at it's core Nanowrimo is supposed to be fun and I want to keep to that.
So, yeah, this Nanowrimo is going to be different. It's the first Nanowrimo where I have so many (too many) options to choose from. This November will be a challenge and, I do love a good challenge when it comes to my writing, so it'll either go really well or... not so well. Either way I am determined to participate this year. I am determined to write something this year.
I hope to be able to post more over the next few weeks and through the month of November. Either way, I will definitely be on here more in December when my classes end. Have a great weekend and next week everyone!
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