Writing update

Hello,

I am very happy to let you know that I have been writing up a storm of late. On the first of this month I decided to join nanowrimo. If you aren't aware, nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It is a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I am very glad that I joined up this year. I do well with deadlines/challenges and I am happy to say that I am slightly ahead of pace at the moment.

It fees really good to be writing heavily again.

Writing goal - progress

Well, I didn't do that well on my writing goal for October. I was able to revise one story and submit it for comments and I nearly finished another, but I did not tackle the third. I struggled with motivation in the later part of October. I love the farm story and look forward to receiving comments on it. And I look forward to taking another pass at the salon story, but the story "Coffee and Cigarettes: A Love Story" has been a bitch to write. I like parts of it, but many times I ask myself "Why, the flip, am I writing this story" and I don't have a good answer. I think I may need to put it aside and work on a story I feel compelled to write, but at the same time I think that if I give up on the story it will be that much easier to give up on the next one.

Writing goal

I have set myself a goal to finish the three "in progress" stories by 11/1/2014. I started writing "The Purse Came First" around 11/1/2013. It would be nice to start a new story on the anniversary of my start. The two TG stories might not get posted as I may decide to have them illustrated, but the smoking story will get posted once finished.

I hope I can reach my goal. It would be nice to start something new. It has been three months since I've posted a story and eight and a half months since I posted a TG story. If I can complete these stories by the end of the month I will have written around 265000 words in a year (completed stories). I've written a lot more than that in drafts and a couple stories that I started, but put on the shelf after a couple thousand words.