Tag: decisions

Tomorrow is NaNo

Tomorrow, I commit myself to writing 2000 words a day for the next month, I’ll be honest; I’m not as motivated for this as I’d like.

I have a lot of documents to edit (now that my developmental editor lets me know what’s not working). I have a novel that needs 25,000 more words.

On the other hand, there’s feeling a part of something bigger than me. NaNo is huge. NaNo is worldwide. NaNo comes with its own motivation.

Oh, this is such a hard decision! I’ll keep you posted.

I have a lot to think about on this plane  trip home, and it’s all about writing.  I’ve been warned not to make decisions when either manic nor udepressed, so I’m not giving up writing yet. I’ve made two decisions thus far:

  1. I’m going to publish Gaia’s Hands on Kindle regardless of whether it makes it through the Scout campaign or not.
  2. I’m not querying agents for a while; I’ll let the rest of the queries out there get rejected.
  3. (Did I say only 2)) I might put another book, Voyageurs, through the Kindle Scout process.
What decisions does that leave? Whether or not I can keep writing when I have no audience who reads my work. (I know about 40 of you read this, but for Lanetta and Lynn, I don’t know if the rest of you like my writing, follow because you know me, or visit to keep up with the dumpster fire that is bipolar disorder.)
I can write for myself, but creativity is not meant to be hoarded. It’s meant to entertain, to make people think, to foment revolutions of the hears. To do that, it needs to be shared with people. When I wrote and performed folk music a lifetime ago, I reached very few people, but the words mattered to them.
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What do I want when I write? I want to feel, as NaNo proclaims, that the world needs my novel.