NaNo basically challenges a person to write 50,000 words in one month. It comes out to be about 1,667 words a day. For some, this is easy-peasy. Not so for me. A consistent 1667 is difficult. The most I have ever written in one day EVER was 12k. I did that once. I can write in bursts and get 12k in a couple days and that is great. What I am doing is trying to focus the challenge and use it to MAKE me write more consistently. Would I like 1667words/day? Oh heck yeah! The obstacles are basically daily living. I have kids. They have sports. I have obligations and stuff I need to do and sometimes it takes priority over writing. HOWEVER, this is the first year were I have had support to write. This is the first year in my published career where my FAMILY knows I write, allows me time to write, asks me how the writing is going, and on that rare occasion when something gets published they are happy for me. This is also the first time when I have been able to share freely about my writing to people I know, people I meet, and people I interact with on a daily basis.
THIS IS HUGE!
That is why I go back to 2013 being "My YEAR". (*Blog reference to WEIGHTLESS IN 2013) It is the best feeling in the world to be myself everywhere I go. I'm not saying I am wearing a gay pride T-shirt and waiving my Wade Kelly Books banner everywhere. NO. I have tact, and residual fear. I know homosexuality is almost as controversial as talking about religion or politics. At least in Carroll County. But I am opening up one person at a time. I tell people straight up I am an author. I never used to do this. I avoided saying anything. This year has been so awesome for me!
From my "Weightless" blog there was a list of things to accomplish:
1. Write everyday. - Not accomplished yet, but I am hopeful. I write MORE than ever before, so that's good.
2. Publish The Cost of Loving. … DONE!!
3. Finish writing Names Can Never Hurt Me … DONE! (and submitted 11/3/13)
4. write Darian's story. hmm, it stands at over 36k which is good, but I haven't worked on it for a while. (writing "NAMES".) I will get to it. Just not yet.
5. Come up with a storyline for the sequel to JOCK. Hmm, not quite, but further along in my head than in January.
MY GOALS NOW:
(10 months later)
1. Publish Names Can Never Hurt Me. This is contingent on signing a contract so please, everyone, cross your fingers for me!
2. FINISH writing another book, preferably by the end of 2013. Doable? Maybe. If I keep the pace I am writing at currently.
3. Write Darian's story.
4. Write a sequel to JOCK.
5. Write another novel. (I have several to choose from.)
6. Basically -- WRITE my fingers to the bone.
Currently I am writing Misplaced Affection. This is a novel I started because I had to write a piece for English class. I wrote like 1400 words and just kept going. It is cute, so far, and full of angst. My hands were shaking and I was breathing rapidly when writing several scenes. It is basically what I call the "Wade Kelly Special". Full of real characters, raw pain, and lots of angst before the characters find love. And, well, maybe, some sex thrown in there as well. LOL! "NAMES" is on the lighter side of the Wade Kelly Special. Misplaced Affection is probably more toward the angst side. If I had a scale????
1 being the lightest read. Happy. Fun. little angst. HEA. AND 10 being torture on the emotions.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
JOCK NAMES MA TCOL WLINE
What do you think? Are these ranks accurate? (And for those who read this on GR and the format gets all messed up, Jock is a 2, NAMES I ranked 5, Misplaced Affection I said 7, TCOL 8, and WLINE 10.) My favorite part is writing 5 novels on that scale. heehee. Gotta get them all published!
This is what I am concentrating on for November and NaNoWriMo:
Misplaced Affection
Two best friends, one huge secret, and a wedding that stands in the way.
Victor Adams, or “Tory” to his friends, has a secret, (two secrets)—he’s
gay, and he’s in love with the boy next door. Tory’s known for years how he
felt, but he’s kept his secret because he’s convinced that telling his best
friend, Jack, could destroy their relationship. And then, when Tory finally
works up the nerve to tell him, Gwendolyn and her friend enter the picture and
mess up everything. Tory couldn’t say the words now. Not when “I love you”
sounds like a lame attempt at hiding his jealousy over Gwendolyn. Besides… so
cliché.
Jack Mitchell was every girl’s heartthrob and every boy’s wet dream.
Quarterback from high school turned horticulturalist, Jack had a personality
that could sell anything, do anything, or be anything. Except, he couldn’t sell
the truth—to himself. He’d been living a lie ever since his best friend Nate,
Tory’s brother, died eight years prior. And just when he thinks he’s ready to
talk about it, and tell Tory how he feels, he meets the prettiest girl in town
and gets swept away.
Two years later, both friends stand ready at a wedding neither one wants
to go through with. The best man, dying on the inside as the only man he’s ever
loved commits himself in marriage—to a woman; and the groom, going through the
motions of what is expected of him, even though, in his heart, he’d rather be
saying “I do” to someone else. At this point, only God could intervene to avert
disaster.
SO THERE YA HAVE IT.
let me know what you think.
Other news: the Goodread M/M Romance Choice Awards are open for nominations. check out the page. Mine have been nominated, but in case you read a book you think needs to be on the list, head over there and nominated one or several. (HERE.)
Laterz,
Wade
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