Hunkering down

Hello all,

Sable Angel here. By the time I write you again, Dragons Among the Ice should be close to a complete novel.

Tuesday, November 1, I start a challenge I took up last year with a group of crazy writers determined to put their tukuses in chairs and create a novel. The challenge is the National November Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short. After the last go round, I inquired about the program parameters to set up for myself during the rest of the year. A certain word goal is set and the number of days to reach that goal is put into the mix. When the two are calculated, a word count per day is determined so the final count will be reached within the timeframe.

The goal is to make the word count each day and, after the set number of days, one has the beginning of a novel. For those who write shorter novels, a complete novel is done at the final counting.

Granted, there are those who have the natural tenacity and structure to make this a normal happening... I am not one of those gifted souls. I'm afraid I procrastinate -- a lot. When I feel unsure of my writing abilities or my 'other' life interrupts, I allow those distractions to rule my passion.

This is something I'm working hard to correct. Losing a friend, at a very young age, to cancer has shaken me up and given me pause to think seriously about where I want the rest of my life to go.

I'll be lost in the land of Dragons [and motorcycle enthusiasts] for the next month.

Keep flying high...

Sable Angel