I wasn’t going to do NaNoWriMo last year, so when I decided to go ahead and do it, I didn’t want a month of crazy writing to interfere with my steady progress on the fifth book in a series. Well, it’s been a couple of months and I’m back to my slow, and somewhat steady, pace and discovering that I don’t particularly like it. It’s not that I dislike my novel or my characters. It’s that I’d rather be editing than writing lots of new material.
I could give myself a stern talking to and continue on, but … One of the few benefits of not having a contract with a publishing house is that no one but me tells me what to write. So, I’m giving myself the option of making a few notes on French Fix, and then turn my attention to another project that has been clamoring for attention for a while. It would mean that I had first draft writing to do in November which can be fun. And in October, I could flush out the outline and review the first half of the novel. And be ready on November 1 to write. It might be 2000 a day on this novel, or I may aim for 1,000 on the novel and 1,000 on other writing since I do like the opportunity to go deeper with longhand writing like I did in 2021.