Are you doing NaNoWriMo?

[xerinmichellex]

Yeah, I know, for those not in the know, it looks like I just slammed my fist on my keyboard. I didn't know for certain what NaNo was until 10 minutes ago. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Before that, I thought it was one of those write a novel in 24 hours deal. I read posts on those, and they've made my fingers cramp up.

It makes sense for the National Novel Writing Month to be in November. December is sort of a no-no when it comes to querying because of the holidays and that is when most people query. Your wait time for a response seems to double. It's a good idea, in my opinion, to have a new novel ready in the beginning of the year. I always start querying in the start of the year--usually around the third week of January.

I'm doing NaNo by default, since my current WIP has a deadline to be done by the end of November. I'll take December off--a month off is the longest I've ever taken off pre-editing. I'm one of those that has to edit right away; even though that isn't all that good when spotting out the errors. Thus far, only 8,000 words into my WIP, with the final goal being 50,000 approximately. I should probably start writing, me thinks.

Also, tomorrow is my 4 weeks mark for my partial with Agent Z. Eek!

Comments

[jack-rowen.livejournal.com]

I'm doing NaNo this month. I'm hoping to finish the second draft of my Novel-In-Progress, then I'll start my third draft in December and hopefully be querying by January or February.

Good luck with your partial! XD

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've got another two weeks (6 weeks in total) before I start to really worry and send a status query. As long as I don't see my SASE in the mail, I'm good.

Good luck with your novel! :)