Before the Binge

Disclaimer: 99% of this entry was written before November. Also, it will mostly outline my plan of attack for the event NaNoWriMo. Also, I use the term 'shitty' more than once, but it's been that kind of month.

I was hoping to begin querying my first novel this past month, but alas it was not to be. I was going to use the Writer's Market as a resource and spam every corner of the literary world. Problem is that the Deluxe Edition I ordered was scheduled for October 8th never arrived. The book mostly disappeared or was labeled 'Out of Stock' by every place on the planet that sales books. The whole reason I paid extra for the 'Deluxe Edition' was to start querying right away. I ended up canceling my order and had to put querying on hold until after the first of the year. The standard version is scheduled to come out in early November and, even if that remains to be true, the holidays are a shitty time to query people. Plus, I have a book to write.

That book is currently titled 'Thermal Kings'. There's an eighty percent chance that will change by the time I'm done with it, but it is what it is for now. There are, of course, some days I won't be able to write. To be honest, November is kind of a shitty month to host this event. Thanksgiving being the chief reason among them. With that holiday and other obligations, I currently calculate that I have twenty-six days worth of writing. That means I need to write just under two thousand words a day to reach the fifty thousand word goal. However, I'm setting a daily goal of twenty-five hundred words a day so I can be, at least, mostly done before the week of Thanksgiving. Follow me on Twitter (@LesAbernathy) if you want plenty of word count shitposting.

Since I'm the ML, it's up to me to encourage people to keep writing so they'll forget everything dies and gets forgotten. I scheduled a NaNoWriMo kickoff event for Sunday at a local coffee shop. Because of course I did. I want to meet every Sunday, but let me meet these people and see if I want to keep meeting them. Since the event is in the future, we'll both have to wait to find out how it goes.

Not much else to say. There was some shitty stuff going on at work this month, but I've gotten as much as I can off my plate as I can before the big month. I'm ready, but I don't feel ready. If that makes sense. I hope to get into the flow of things and become unstoppable. Like I usually do. The trick is just to get started in the first place.

Until next time, and at all times, be kind.

P.S. Free Hong Kong.