NaNoWriMo is now into its second week. Before it started, I spent the devil of a time trying to figure out what I wanted to work on. While it’s nice (finally!) to have several ideas, it doesn’t help when D-day is counting down and I don’t have an outline–or a clue!–as to what I want to work on.
I finally decided to work on 2 projects; one is the third novel to a series (I’m currently working on the 2nd), and if that doesn’t reach 50,000 words, I have an erotic comedy that’s been sitting on a back-burner that I would like to finish (I hope!)
The only problem for me with NaNo is that it’s hard to write after spending all day in front of a computer. A few years ago, it didn’t bother me. Now, it’s bothering me. So I’m trying to squeeze in my word count at work (don’t tell anyone, OK?)
So far I’m on track, but as it gets busier at work (most of our contracts renew January 1, so the work has to be done between now and the end of December), it’s going to get harder. And that’s why turning your internal editor off is so important. If a writer’s time is limited, having an internal editor yelling at you to make changes doesn’t help at all. Thank goodness I can think of an idea and run with it, even if it gets chopped during the editing process.
And now I’m working on a third project–my current WIP which is almost done. Shee! Talk about challenges! But it’s getting there; it would be nice to finish both the 2nd and 3rd novels of this trilogy, but one step at a time.
I’ll post next week and let you know how things are moving along! 
‘Til then, Char
