Nanowrimo part two

Having finished 31,200 words of my SF novella Last Train to Clarkesville and finished the story too, I am continuing Nanowrimo with some fantasy, namely Book 3 of The Brigstowe Dragons. Book Two has been accepted by the publishers and is due out in April 2018 so three is almost pre-sold, as long as it’s good enough. Obviously, I hope to make it good enough.

After taking Sunday off, I needed a good word count today to catch up. Happily, as soon as I entered the familiar world of Brigstowe the words flowed like a flowing thing and I bashed out 3049 words in a three-hour session of inspiration. Writer’s don’t always get days like this.

Officially, Nanowrimo is meant to produce a novel first draft but if I’m sticking to the word count demanded to produce two novellas I am adhering to the spirit of it which is, presumably, to make writers productive. Obviously, there are not enough novels in the world and only 20,000 or so new ones every week. Writers must all work harder! But there’s no point in writing if no one reads it so readers must work harder too. The unemployed could be forced to read for 8 hours a day to make it all worthwhile for us. Obviously, they’re skint but they can have the free books, of which there are multitudes. No one expects to pay for a book nowadays.