I've decided to be a rebel for NaNoWriMo.
What that means is that the participant does anything but write a novel in those 30 days*. I have two books I'm editing, the problem child Gaia's Hands (which may be a novella by the time I'm done with it) and Whose Hearts are Mountains when I get it back from my dev editor.
It feels odd not writing a new novel, but it's not the best use of my time. I need to get this backlog dealt with and ready for possibilities. When these are done, I will have five completed novels (or four and a novella): Whose Hearts are Mountains, Apocalypse, Voyageurs, Prodigies, Gaia's Hands. (There's one more novel, Reclaiming the Balance, but I despair over that particular one, and there's Gods' Seeds, the one I'm not finishing for NaNo.
It's time for me to edit. It's time for me to write shorter items and try to get those published (I have one short story and one flash item published so far, Flourish and Becky Home-Ecky.) It's time for me to try something else for NaNo.
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* The way one counts progress when editing in NaNo is 1 hour = 1000 words. Which is about right, except when I get really stuck.
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