#projectaon

Well, the weekly writing updates kinda went down the drain this month, and to be honest, so did the writing.  I am right now in my new apartment in Nevada.  The final packing, the three-day drive, and unpacking of the essentials items.  I have had a full week, with a back room filled with boxes, my desktop and work area in the dining room, the planned office is for my husband and myself.  I have no routine, no desk, and I start work next week.  

I purchased a small lined notebook before the three-day ride to write out and see if I could finish the journal.  I did the majority of the driving, except for about two hours each day.  We didn’t get into our hotels until much later than I expected, and surprise surprise, I was also exhausted.

The past week, I have been prepping for NaNoWriMo.  I went to my first live meetup.  It wasn’t well structured, but it was nice to talk to actual other writers who were about to dive into this month-long craziness of 50k words.  I drew up sprint tracker sheets in my writer’s notebook.  Starting a new job and eventually going back to my work schedule of 3-12-hour shifts a week, the four days off will be nothing but writing, the workdays I want to be able to at least one sprint even if its a 10 to 15-minute-sprint.  

Goals, goals, goals.  Write every day.  Finish Project Lost.  Write 50k.  

So if I haven’t been writing, then what the hell have I been doing at night.  I have been doing so much prepping for Project AON.  Holy crap so much work.  All of my characters have backstories and personalities. My settings are beginning to come together, through pictures and stories of there own.  January1st 2020, I can't wait to start writing that four-book series.  

NaNoWriMo 2019 is on the horizon, and I can’t wait to start the month-long journey.

Current WIP word count: 17,091 words.

Current WIP: Project Lost (writing) and Project AON (world-building and prepping)

Goal for October: 195 out of 2,500 words. (FAIL)

In the fourth quarter of the year, I am looking back on the past year and looking forward to the next year.  Not much writing got done this week. I looked forward past the move and planned what I want to accomplish in the next four quarters, and even gave myself a year-long writing challenge.

My current projects include:

Project Forgotten, which has been written and edited once, still in the self-editing process.  My goal for 2020 is to complete the editing processing and beta reader process and finish the year in the professional process of professional editing and cover design.  I want to self publish this book in 2021.

Project Lost is currently being written.  I want to complete the first draft writing during NaNoWriMo this November, then start editing, and end the year in the beat reading phase.

Project AON, currently in the world-building stage. This is the story I wanted to write during NaNoWriMo, but since my characters aren’t flush out and my world-building is not complete, want to work on this the remainder of the year and start writing this book series in January.  My self-challenge is to write the four books in this series in one year.  The series is all outlined, plotted, and beat sheet completed, it's just personalizing the characters and the world.

I have the four quarters divided up and mapped out how I want to complete my goals.  Throughout the year, ill readjust the timeline depending on whether I am ahead or behind.  The challenge portion is to write four books in one year, utterly at one book every three months.  The books between 50 to 75k, using the high estimate of 75k, that's an average of 893 words a day, for the year.  I got this I can do this.  Oh boy!

Current WIP word count 15,068

Current WIP Project lost (writing) & Project AON (world building)

I finished the scene-by-scene outline for my Camp NaNoWriMo project.  After getting through the deep emotional parts of the story, the rest of it poured quickly on to the screen.  The first act I will still be hard for me to write at least certain scenes.  I thought about how I would start the first sentence, the first paragraph, or the first image.  

This past week was more difficult than usual.  The project lost has some challenging content, a child loses their parents in a motor vehicle accident.  I understand and seen first hand that the mourning of an adult is very different than that of a child.  I am trying to depict the accurate account of both the physical and mentor rigors, of mourning or even PTSD in children.  Between remembering the recent family tragedies that  I encountered as I watched children within the same age range handle the manifestation of grief and the researching, this has emotionally drained me.  I am only outlining, but when I go to write this during Camp NaNoWriMo, I already see scenes that will be hard to write.  I was able to finish the scene-by-scene outline for Act I  and started Act II. This project will have me dig deep, but I need to stay honest about the situation and the characters.

Project Forgotten, on the other hand, had been printed, bound, and currently occupies an area on a  shelf below my desk.  Out of sight, but always on my mind.