I’m having trouble with Nanowrimo this year, guys. Not with meeting my word count, per se, but with trying to figure out where this story starts and ends. When you find yourself googling “should I write flashbacks?” you know you’re in trouble. My novel outline has multiple points of view, some in the past and some in the present, and it’s just a complete mess. I know it’s not working, but I can’t figure out how to fix it, and it seems easier to give up.
On the other hand, I know that this happens every year around this time. More than once, I’ve debated whether to abandon a novel and start a new one at this point in Nanowrimo. I know it’s just my brain’s way of telling me that thinking is too hard. I’ve gotta keep going. If I stick with it long enough, I should start liking it again by next week…at least until I start hating it again.
In other news, I got a new day job, and finished Pitch Wars. I got a request for a full from an agent (woohoo!), and I couldn’t have asked for a better mentor. Emmie Mears, my mentor, writes gritty urban fantasy and—is superhero fiction sci fi? I feel like it’s sci fi. Anyway, I bought their book, Shrike: The Masked Songbird, just before heading on the Writing Excuses cruise, and pretty much read the entire thing on the plane there. The best way to describe it is if The Devil Wears Prada was a superhero origin story. I highly recommend it, and look forward to reading the rest of their books.
Bennett North 