Hello, good morning!
It’s Elle here, checking in for the very first time. I would love to post a vlog–and I hope to next week–but I’m in transit. I live in Canberra, Australia; I am currently at my in-laws in Sydney, Australia; and I will be at my parents in Brisbane, Australia next week. So with just an original iPad and no computer, I have no chance to create a lovely video.
That being said, I do feel that this post should include a video, so I give you my sister’s interpretation of me!
Being Australian means that I may or may not post before Kristy on Saturdays. I am sorry for the confusion. If only we could move the date line slightly so this wouldn’t happen!
I should probably talk about my Great Noveling Adventure. I loved the idea as soon as Serena vloged about it. I couldn’t wait to be a part of the team. It was sometime in the last week of November when I was awfully sick and it didn’t look like I was going to finish NaNo.
(After a three-day fever and a five-day migraine, I woke up on the 30th with a bounce in my step needing to win NaNo. I had to write 13,000 words to do it. Needless to say, this was a challenge I had to accomplish and thankfully, for my sanity after that day, I did win NaNo.)
I thought, hey, this looks like a brilliant idea to keep me on track after November.
The problem is that I actually finished my novel. (I know, it’s a nice problem to have.)
So with a completed novel, what the heck is my Noveling Adventure going to be about?
Well, I thought I’d take the opportunity to use it as public accountability. I am going to get you all to hold me to editing my novel, at least a couple of days a week. I am going to get you to make sure I start writing the next project, and keep writing.
I think that will be the biggest challenge for me. I have been working on this draft all year. In fact, I quit my job at Penguin Books in February, for a variety of reasons, but the main one being so I could work on this novel more full-time. Now that it’s done, I am focussed on editing it; yet I don’t want to stop writing either. But with Charlie & Cub (the novel) complete and having been the focus of my life for so long, I don’t know what else to write.
Nevertheless, I have an idea; I have four characters and the shape of a novel. I think that is enough to get me started.
So, this is me. This is my adventure. And I hope you will follow along with me as I try to edit one novel while writing another, new one.
You know, the time differences didn’t even occur to me! How funny.
I’m so impressed that you wrote 13k on November 30 – the most I’ve ever written in one day was 6k, and that very nearly killed me.
Good luck!