It's October 31-Samhain. Or perhaps you call it Halloween. Fifteen years ago, I coined the term HalloNaNoWeen. Yes, it's the day before National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) begins. And I am waiting for midnight!
That's the tough part. Waiting. Over the past week, since finishing the first draft of Team Manager COACH!, I've been trying not to sit down and start writing my new novel. Instead, I've written some 8,783 words of "notes", including a timeline and event history, sample voice scenes, historical events and personages, what gods and goddesses Bob will interact with, and what it means to be a demon.
All in preparation to begin writing Bob's Memoir: 4000 Years as a Free Demon.
And that isn't all the preparation. With the help of a different Bob (a fan here on SOL), I now have a Discord server with channels open for discussion and author interaction. You can join other fans and me there. I'll post the link in my next blog post, so scroll up to see it. Blog posts don't appear in the regular news feed if they include a link.
I'm hoping my Sausage Grinder patrons are preparing, as well. They get to see everything I write as soon as I can get it to them-at least weekly. In the case of Bob's Memoir, they'll get a daily link to what I've written on this story each day in November. It's raw, messy, unedited, and sometimes surprisingly fun! The first post will come out sometime tomorrow evening, Pacific Time.
The NaNoWriMo site says that during my past seventeen years of writing a novel or two every November, I've accumulated 1,922,298 words. I plan to tip the wordometer over the 2 million mark this month. If I can only wait long enough start writing.
Maybe I'll put on my top hat and go stroll through the Fremont Experience this evening to walk between the worlds and look at the costumes! Or I might even do laundry. Waiting is really hard!