Sunday Sunday Sunday!

NaNoWriMo starts Sunday. I was all set to do this, and now I’m starting to waffle. I already have several project in progress and I don’t want to put them on hold for 30 days while I work on yet another novel, but I may not have a choice. Well, I do have a choice… to skip NaNoWriMo this year.

I’m actually considering taking the Chosen Book (at least the current one) and starting over on November 1. I can use the first bit I already have as an outline, the sketch for the setup, and then just dive in from scratch. Get the wordy juices flowin’ or something. Yes, I said ‘wordy juices’ and you’re just going to have to accept that.

I’m not panicky about writing, but I find myself questioning my abilities, my voice, my grammar, my everything. The icky part is that I haven’t even started NaNoWriMo yet… what am I gonna be like by the end of the month? Sheesh.

50,000+ words closer to a finished product… that’s what I’ll be. I’ll be one full draft closer to finished with the second book I hope to get out into the hands of agents and publishers by the end of 2010. Wow, I’ve never just put it into words like that… not with a deadline. One childrens book is complete (in the hand of a few people to read and let me know what they think, but complete) and the novel is underway.

So, hopefully I’ll be sending out a query letter in the winter (hopefully only one, but who am I kidding), and then another (for the not-so-childrens book) by the end of 2010. That feels like a really long time off, but it’ll be here sooner than I’m ready to face just yet.

Three days and counting… NaNoWriMo here I come.