Oh by the way, NaNoWriMo is here...
30 days, 50k words. NO Excuses! This year's heroine...
I just want to remind everyone that if you’re doing NaNoWriMo, you’re halfway through it, so keep going, no matter your word count. You’re writing every day and that’s what is important.
You believe your story is important enough to put into words that come into your head and flow through your mouth, your fingers, whatever gets the words out into the world.
Read here for last year’s words about it: Why Doing NaNoWriMo Is Great For Writers.
This year, I’m setting my story in the world from my previous NaNo novel, but it’s way in the past. There’s a dark history, forces in the world clash, and only one woman, one imperfect woman reluctantly embraces her destiny to…
… it involves becoming a midwife with miracle powers, but she hates returning to “school” to learn stuff. Why can’t she just get her revenge on her ex. who joined a band of soulless men who ravaged and destroyed everything she held dear?
Just imagine that in that IMAX film-narrator voice!
I am and I’m having fun.
November is a time — at least in the Northern Hemisphere to watch the land grow still, the moon rises pale and frosty through spiny, bare branches and over the quiet and leaf-covered ground.
I love the middle of the season when change is coming.
It’s a great time to write. Are you writing? November, start your Substack?
This is my new favorite November song…