It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions.
've never actually participated in NaNoWriMo. During the month of November for a couple of years, I did an alternative form of it on my own where I set a goal to write a novella, but I've never done a novel before and after not staying with the novella I don’t’ plan on giving writing a novel a try. When it comes to writing, I am not a novel person; I am a short story one. For me short Stories are more manageable but they're still challenging and time consuming to write, as much as I like to write them. I mean look at the set of short stories I'm working on now, "Bad Apps": it consists of only 6 or 7 stories and I've been working on it for over two years!
But there’s some good news: I'm coming to revising my last two stories for “Bad Apps” and one is only the ending since the rest of it is how I want it. In the last couple of years, I've learned that I'm not good with fiction writing deadlines and so I don’t set them for myself anymore, at least not in the strict sense. Yet I don’t like keeping my readers in the dark so that's why I try to keep them updated with my author's newsletter. The one for October is now out. If you haven't subscribed to the newsletter yet then you can do so for free here.
I'm cutting out here early because the past few days have been very hectic due to the Halloween weekend (in which I hope you all had a good one) and I'm so tired that I'm ready to let my face fall onto the keyboard. I won't be posting next Monday because we had the IWSG blog hop today as well as our regular weekly Far Out Fantastic Site post this past Monday. So, I'll see you the following Monday. Everyone have a great week!
Do you participate in NanoWriMo? Or do you do an alternative form of it?
Today’s IWSG is brought to you by these super co-hosts: PJ Colando, Jean Davis, Lisa Buie Collard, and Diedre Knight! IWSG was founded by awesome author Alex Cavanaugh, writer of the Cassa Series of novels!
Until next time . . .
