And It Begins

So! Here we are, ready for another thrilling year of tackling NaNoWriMo. For anyone who doesn't know what that means, it stands for "National Novel Writing Month." However, that's misnamed now. It's no longer national, it's international, and it runs through the month of November. The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

This is my second year attempting this. Of course, Blogger has photo uploading disabled right now. I was going to show you an exciting little snip that shows off my win from last year. ;-) Obviously, my goal is to win again this year. Only, instead of writing one book, I'm going to write two. Or, rather, that's the plan. We'll see if I actually pull it off.

The first to be written is "The Day SHADE Came to Call." If you're a registered member of Writing.com, you can have the privilege of reading my amazing book as it's written. Okay, it's probably going to come out disjointed and horribly messed up, but what do you expect of a first draft? Oh. The genre of this amazing book is technically mainstream fiction, but I guarantee the idea is different and unique!

The second book to, hopefully, be written is "The Dark Rider." That's the working title as of right now. The genre of this one is Christian fantasy. Rumor has it this genre is hard to pull off, so we'll see how I do. It was the first idea I ever had that required something the length of a book. Unfortunately, I had no faith in myself and it has sat, collecting dust, for years. This book is, technically, the one that drove me to try NaNoWriMo last year, though I used a different book. I was hoping to return to it and write it later on. That never happened. It's getting all whopping 3 chapters cut off and rejuvenated for this year's NaNo. Maybe. ;-) It all depends on whether or not the 1st book gets finished in time. Either way, I hope to at least start it this month. I'd love to use the energy of the event to get a boost.

I'm happily planning and plotting and getting ready to leap out of my skin waiting for November 1 to arrive. I am also on the edge of my seat for October 25th when Scrivener releases their beta version for Windows! Their main version is for Macs and has been around for years. I've always wanted to try it out, so this is exciting! I'm going to help test the beta this year, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of others. :-) I am definitely looking forward to that. :-D

Last year, I used yWriter5 to write my book. It worked well for me, and if Scrivener turns out to be something I can't work with, heaven forbid, I will return to it. It is a free novel writing software and is well done, though not as 'pretty' as some others out there. There are huge discussions on whether or not you need novel writing software to write a book. The end line is, "Of course not." However, it works for me and that's all that matters. :-)

I think that is good for now. Tomorrow I hope to return to ramble on a bit more about something NaNo related. :-) This is my favorite time of year, so it shouldn't be that hard.