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October 09, 2006
Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
The great thing about a new book is that you have a new book! You go to booksignings and book festivals and Inside Story and school visits and let's not forget that big book launch party (if you're in the Seattle area, please come -- it's Sunday, October 29, from 5-7 pm at All for Kids books. RSVP please).
The not-so-great thing about a new book is all of the above. Because it means you really aren't writing. Okay, I did spend the summer working on a nonfiction picture book with my dear Write Sister, Mary Nethery (whose cat, Asta, is an author!). But that was it. Okay and my day poems (my morning discipline). And those two short stories. But that's not much.
I am starting to feel like a bit of a fraud. So, inspired by my colleague from the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program, Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, I am commiting to National Novel Writing Month. Beginning November 1, I will be a writing fiend! I may not crank out the 50,000 words they set as their bar (children's books generally aren't that long) but I will complete a novel. Do I have a plot? Not right now. A character? Only the merest whisper. But hundreds of other NaNoWriMo participants have been unfazed by such things and I, too, am going to embrace the uncertainty.
I will try to keep you posted here on my progress. But if I am too busy writing, I ask your forgiveness in advance.
Posted by kirby at October 9, 2006 05:02 PM
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