Happy Friday, Lurkdom! I hope you all have splendiferous plans for the weekend. I’m going to continue to work on my word count and ponder the writing life*. I’ve been thinking a lot about first drafts. For the last two years, my writing group has been critiquing Nemesis’ sophomore effort–a novel of undetermined genre or target audience. This past Wednesday
November and the Art of Shitty First Drafts
Last night I completed my 50,000th word on my NaNoWriMo project – a yet to be titled urban fantasy. A lot of people would be jumping up and down at this point, but I’m keeping myself reserved for two big reasons: 1) I have at least 20,000 more words to go and 2) I know this is only the shitty