Monday Check In

Last week:

Writing Related:  I set up a couple of promotional things for the release of Broken Trust and Honor Bound while that one is still on sale. I started writing book #4 which will be Mississippi's story. No title yet. They don't usually come to me until I'm about half to three quarters of the way through writing the story. I'm going to try write the majority of the book during NaNoWriMo. If you're unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo, it's National Novel Writing Month where participants try to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I've never participated before, usually because my books are well over 50,000 words which is approximately 200 pages. My goal is to have the first draft of Mississippi's story written by mid-December. That's an ambitious goal for me. I've never written a first draft that quickly. I'm pretty sure I should be able to do it, provided something unforeseen doesn't crop up.

Motivational Quote:  "You have the time to be creative and also to do nothing. You have time for anything you say is important to you." ~ Unknown

What I'm Reading:  I'm reading The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston. I should finish it sometime this week. It's interesting, but not what I expected. It's a Good Morning America Book Club Pick if you like to read books that are book club picks like this one or Oprah's or Reese Witherspoon's. 

Random Things:  It's getting colder and darker here in the evenings now. I find that as much as I yearn for fall when it's 85 degrees or higher with oppressive humidity, I'm missing the late summer evenings where the sun shines until 9:00pm and you don't need a coat. I'm also dreading the coming winter season. Too bad we couldn't skip that season altogether. 

Random Photo:

    I thought this was appropriate given my goal of writing a first draft in about 8 weeks.