Smut & Scones

So here I am sort of completely restarting my NaNo project on Day 10. Though I am NOT deleting the almost-5K I wrote already. Per the great Chris Baty, I'm just changing the font to white so it doesn't show up in my word doc and then pressing on. I still wrote those words, dammit, even if I don't end up using them. I'm still writing the same basic story, but I spent a lot of the last 10 days trying to force myself to work with this particular outlining style -- which I do think is a good style -- that I've never used before, and trying to get the hang of it while also attempting the speedy word dumps necessary for NaNo was driving me crazy. Also, I'm trying to write essentially a paranormal romance, here. I know how those are paced. Using an outline that asks me for scenes better suited to straight fantasy novels was throwing me off and getting me frustrated. Once November is over I'll have to sketch out an outline that would be better to use for PNR. Pr...

It's Day 3 of NaNoWriMo 2019. I love it when November starts so close to a weekend. It means you get to really kick off the month with some solid writing time which, for me, is super helpful. I'm behind on the traditional daily word count, but considering I spent most of day 1 just trying to figure out what the heck I was even going to be writing this month, I now feel pretty encouraged to have a plot and the first few sections of an outline done that I actually like, plus a solid day's worth of writing. One of my two kids has been spending the weekend with grandma, which has also helped. I don't know how to explain the fact the the Walmart brand of French Roast coffee grounds is so vastly superior to the Albertson's store brand of same. But here we are. I bought a 2lbs bag of it just to save some money by going bulk, and I am living. Current writing inspiration novels I'm keeping by my side are actually three I haven't even finished reading, and in fa...