And the final consensus was(drum roll please)...not to NaNo. A week long vacation and a large number of submission responses combined with a backlog of editing culminated in the final decision of skipping NaNoWriMo this year. I'll miss doing it but with all that's going on, I'd never be able to maintain a healthy word count. But good luck to all those who are NaNo'ing!
So now that my November has opened up, I have a decision to make -- write more short stories or edit? My vacation to the the gulf has given me a ton of fodder for new short stories. An interesting ride on a nighttime trolley with inebriated party goers, an airport with a futuristic tram that transports you from the terminal to the baggage claim and many, many interesting people are keeping my brain a-buzzing with story potential. All of that combined with an unprecedented number of acceptances this week (4 in 1 week! It's a record!) have left my short story bank a little anemic and in need of new tales to submit. But what of the novels?
If I submerge myself in short story writing, the novels that need editing and the one in my head begging me to write it will be left in the dust -- again. As I've discussed before, I again find myself in the throws of Writers' Attention Deficit Disorder. If I were more organized, less of a procrastinator and didn't have other responsibilities, I could do it all. But, I am not organized and I am a procrastinator and do have a plethora of other responsibilities, so a decision must be made. Problem being, I still don't know what that decision should be. Perhaps it's time to break out the old Excel and create a schedule/spreadsheet breaking it all down. I do love a good spreadsheet.
***Want to see where to find my newly accepted stories? Check out my Published Works tab. More information (including publishing dates) to follow!
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