I’m thinking that maybe I might have taken on a little much this month!

I am still editing my junior fiction story, before I send it out into the world to earn its keep. The process just seems to take for ever! I’ve now decided that an entire re-write is in order, so you’d barely recognise a word of the original version.

Meanwhile, I’m also writing a the first draft of a children’s film script, as part of a scriptwriting course I am doing. Which is challenging to think so visually whilst still writing in a novel style for other projects. I’ve been using Celtx software to help write the script and have recommended it to all on the course, because it is so fantastic and so amazingly free!

Amongst the other projects I am still attempting the crazy novel writing challenge, nanowrimo. I refuse to back down, yet, although next week could be a different story.  I am very happy to be over the 10,000 word mark though, even if it was a little later than planned. I am absolutely astonished at the speed that these people type/think/write at, some of them had comfortably reached the 50,000 word goal before the end of the first week! My hat goes off to you all, I am in awe.

Well, my first two days of attempting to write 50,000 words in the month of November have gone and I’m just a little under the target of 1,667 words per day.

I must confess I am used to being economical with my words, I mainly write children’s fiction so the idea of stretching my wordy limits is rather challenging. Especially considering last week I was working on picture book stories!