Yesterday marked the start of NaNoEdMo, or National Novel Editing Month for people who hate acronyms. The goal in NaNoEdMo (EdMo for short) is to complete 50 hours of editing on one project, which averages out to 97 minutes a day. If you were successful at NaNoWriMo and are serious about writing, then EdMo shouldn’t be a problem. In fact,
This dark sketchy picture represents the last complete draft of FALLING TO NORMAL, the young adult novel I’m shopping around. Or was until I got no hits from the queries sent in the last half of 2009, now I’m in revision-o-rama. I admit, I hate it. That is, the revision process. More specifically as it holds to this project. When
Unofficially, my vacation started on Christmas Eve. (When you work in educational software, there isn’t much to do between 12/24 and 1/2.) Officially, it starts tomorrow at noon and ends the moment I wake up on January 4. And I’ve got plans.What are they?Besides doing a fabulous hat exchange with two good friends, writerly stuff. Like what?Revising my YA project,
The past two months has been focused on the rewrite to FALLING TO NORMAL. I’m hoping that this is final time. I have moved entire scenes and chapters around. This was necessary, and I think it’s tightened my story up a lot. This also shortened the story’s time frame, which works with the new focus. I also removed the central