Today I finished the second book in what I’m calling the Crested Butte series. The name of this book is And Then You Dance. There’s a theme. And Then You . . . that was my aha moment a few days ago.
One person has finished reading the first draft, and she called today when she finished, praising and cursing me. The curse had to do with a note I put at the end of book two saying book three would be available early 2014. And she doesn’t want to wait.
She talked a lot about how I handled the different scenarios, my writing methodologies, which are loose at best. I let the story lead me. When I sat down this morning I had four or five story elements I intended to write in before the book ended. And then, suddenly, I wrote a sentence and I knew. That was the end. Two out of the five elements made it. The other three will either wait for book three, or go away completely. Even now I don’t remember what they were.
Having read all of my books, she is qualified to comment on how my writing is changing. It’s getting easier with each book I finish, which is evident in the writing. I feel it, she read it.
So here I am, another book finished and my first shipment of paperbacks for the first CB series arriving tomorrow. It’s a weird timeline, particularly when you write as quickly as I have been recently.
And finally, tomorrow, or two hours and eight minutes from now, NaNoWriMo will start. And I’m playing again this year. I won on November 19 last year. Given that I cannot remember the three story elements I intended to write this morning, and yet I remember what day I wrote my fifty-thousandth word a year ago, is astounding.
Many nanowrimos are starting tonight, stroke of midnight. I will not. At the rate I’ve been writing, I’ll win this year around November 10th or so. And it isn’t about winning, it’s about writing. Book three . . . yet untitled. Starts tomorrow. Ready, set, sleep.
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