Flailing at NaNoWriMo.

Here’s a quick update on how I’m doing with NaNoWriMo 2016:

I put ‘flailing’ rather than ‘failing’ because, however much it feels like it, I haven’t failed yet! We are only in the first week and even though it looks kind of bleak, I know that there’s still plenty of time for me to get my mojo back.

My novel is going along at a snail’s pace but it is still going along and I won’t be giving up. However, I had a panic earlier when I realised that I feel like I’ve used up most of my plot ideas already and haven’t even reached 7000 words yet!

The NaNoWriMo Book Tag.

I am suddenly so excited for NaNoWriMo so I had to do this tag that was making the rounds on BookTube last year. It was created by Kristina Horner.

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NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and takes place every year in November. (Or Novel-ember. Geddit?) The idea is that, between 1st Nov and 30 Nov, you write 50,000 words of a novel, or whatever else you’re working on.

It sounds unfeasible, but it isn’t. The online community are a huge help and there are events set up in local areas to encourage people to get to that elusive 50K. I’d never written more than 5000 words of a novel before I started prepping for NaNoWriMo in 2012. It’s revolutionised my writing technique and I can write a lot more now, even if what I write is shit.

This Thing I’m Writing.

Slightly different post today, though still book-related – just not a published book! I wanted to post the first properly edited part of the children’s/YA adventure book I’m currently working on. I’m still working out some kinks but hoped that you guys might like to have a read and give me some advice. I’m not afraid of criticism, so don’t hold back!

Also, I’d like to see if this makes people want to read on and find out what happens next, so I decided against a plot summary on here.