Writing Competition
As some may already be aware, I've agreed to a writing competition against shogunsquirrel .
The details are that we are both to write a novel in the romance genre. There is a 50,000 word limit. There is a six month time limit. Neither of us has written in the genre before, though I have certainly included elements of romance novels in my own work. More to the point I think I've read all of one "romance" novel in my life, and that was a fairly placid Danielle Steele work that a then-girlfriend had me read.
I fully plan on either posting full chapters here or else emailing them out to interested parties. Really, I'm just looking at it as a writing exercise and am full aware of the knowledge that I do much much better with a deadline than without. The good news is that it isn't quite the time crunch that say NaNoWriMo is, and seeing as how I've found the self-discipline to sit my ass down and actually write again I'll be able to focus on the two other projects.
One of those projects is Nightshades, which saw a too long hiatus on my part but I am back picking away at. This week will see me hit the 1/2 way mark of 50k words. It also means I need to bring up ye olde outline and see what I had planned next and see if its still feasible.
The other is a working project called Seven Swords- a definite homage ripoff of the Seven Samurai. The difference here is that I'm doing all of the preliminary work in ye olde fashioned note book. The idea being that I might actually generate a real first draft that can then be edited as opposed to the ever-evolving first draft that tends to come out when I work in Word.
The details are that we are both to write a novel in the romance genre. There is a 50,000 word limit. There is a six month time limit. Neither of us has written in the genre before, though I have certainly included elements of romance novels in my own work. More to the point I think I've read all of one "romance" novel in my life, and that was a fairly placid Danielle Steele work that a then-girlfriend had me read.
I fully plan on either posting full chapters here or else emailing them out to interested parties. Really, I'm just looking at it as a writing exercise and am full aware of the knowledge that I do much much better with a deadline than without. The good news is that it isn't quite the time crunch that say NaNoWriMo is, and seeing as how I've found the self-discipline to sit my ass down and actually write again I'll be able to focus on the two other projects.
One of those projects is Nightshades, which saw a too long hiatus on my part but I am back picking away at. This week will see me hit the 1/2 way mark of 50k words. It also means I need to bring up ye olde outline and see what I had planned next and see if its still feasible.
The other is a working project called Seven Swords- a definite homage ripoff of the Seven Samurai. The difference here is that I'm doing all of the preliminary work in ye olde fashioned note book. The idea being that I might actually generate a real first draft that can then be edited as opposed to the ever-evolving first draft that tends to come out when I work in Word.