Alright, so the only thing I know about what I'm going to work on during November is that it's Something Gay. I have a mile long list of things I need to write from shorts to novellas to full length novels, and various deadlines to meet. Self-imposed deadlines and otherwise.
November specifically rests between the tail end of a ghost writing gig that ends in October, and December which is....December. Need I say more?
Goal: 1k words a day or more.
Progress:
Content Warnings: TBA, probably mentions of 18+ content in this thread, but no actual snippets unless that's allowed?
Title: Something Gay
Synopsis: probably an age gap trope, knowing me. If I use November to write for a collection I'm doing, then it'll be m/m fantasy romance, most likely Prince/Bodyguard.
Author Notes: vampire prince??? Maybe???
I usually write in 20-30 minutes sprints for 1-3 hours depending on energy. I use Spirit City Lo-Fi Sessions when I'm able for atmosphere!
I am a heavy outliner, usually outlining the plot chapter by chapter. I'll probably be doing this between now and November when I figure out what in writing exactly.
I primarily draft in a program called Scrivener, but I've had to have Word for ghostwriting jobs lately and it's been very comfortable I can't lie. When it comes to outlining and sorting information, Scrivener is my preference.
I prefer to body double while writing, so writing while someone else is also writing nearby. I'm always more productive with company. It's an ADHD thing.
I'm going with a daily goal rather than one big goal because it feels less daunting to me.
November specifically rests between the tail end of a ghost writing gig that ends in October, and December which is....December. Need I say more?
Goal: 1k words a day or more.
Progress:
Content Warnings: TBA, probably mentions of 18+ content in this thread, but no actual snippets unless that's allowed?
Title: Something Gay
Synopsis: probably an age gap trope, knowing me. If I use November to write for a collection I'm doing, then it'll be m/m fantasy romance, most likely Prince/Bodyguard.
Author Notes: vampire prince??? Maybe???
I usually write in 20-30 minutes sprints for 1-3 hours depending on energy. I use Spirit City Lo-Fi Sessions when I'm able for atmosphere!
I am a heavy outliner, usually outlining the plot chapter by chapter. I'll probably be doing this between now and November when I figure out what in writing exactly.
I primarily draft in a program called Scrivener, but I've had to have Word for ghostwriting jobs lately and it's been very comfortable I can't lie. When it comes to outlining and sorting information, Scrivener is my preference.
I prefer to body double while writing, so writing while someone else is also writing nearby. I'm always more productive with company. It's an ADHD thing.
I'm going with a daily goal rather than one big goal because it feels less daunting to me.
Alright I finally have figured out what I'll be doing in november (aside from my ghostwriting work).
I'm planning an m/m romance (duh) between an autistic human prince and a werewolf bodyguard (who might have adhd possibly.)
The werewolf is sorta a mix between a werewolf and a vampire, with two different wolf forms. One a more human half-shifted form, the other full wolf. He also drinks and needs to drink human blood or he does mad with hunger that can cause him to hurt people. He tries to keep this in line by drinking small amounts of human blood here and there, but it's getting more and more difficult to control, and his prince might need to lend a helping artery. 👀
note: if you're wondering, what's the point in mentioning the price is autistic? It matters a lot to understanding him as a character. It's not explicitly mentioned in this story because it's a fantasy world and the word doesn't exist, so it's important to me to mention it outside of the story.
Word count goal: 20k words give or take.
Title: Blood Ties
Collection: this book is for a achillean fantasy romance collection I'm hosting with a few other authors, the title of the collection is: Enchanted & Entangled!
I'm planning an m/m romance (duh) between an autistic human prince and a werewolf bodyguard (who might have adhd possibly.)
The werewolf is sorta a mix between a werewolf and a vampire, with two different wolf forms. One a more human half-shifted form, the other full wolf. He also drinks and needs to drink human blood or he does mad with hunger that can cause him to hurt people. He tries to keep this in line by drinking small amounts of human blood here and there, but it's getting more and more difficult to control, and his prince might need to lend a helping artery. 👀
note: if you're wondering, what's the point in mentioning the price is autistic? It matters a lot to understanding him as a character. It's not explicitly mentioned in this story because it's a fantasy world and the word doesn't exist, so it's important to me to mention it outside of the story.
Word count goal: 20k words give or take.
Title: Blood Ties
Collection: this book is for a achillean fantasy romance collection I'm hosting with a few other authors, the title of the collection is: Enchanted & Entangled!
My goal for november is technically 70k words because on top of the 20k words of my personal story, I also need to write 50k words of ghost writing for a client. Woof. So, my daily word count goal is 2333. I hope to get more done at in person writing meet-ups I'm going to, to account for the "slow" days, but I'd also like to be pretty consistent.
I'll say what I said in discord lol
That sounds like a tough goal to beat, but I feel like if anyone could do it it's you.
I can't wait to see the personal shares too it sounds really fun
But I've seen that with a lot of like especially fantasy novelists is they don't specifically mention the disorder their character has but they write it well enough that the reader understands. I hope to see your own relationship to how that's addressed in your writing. XX
That sounds like a tough goal to beat, but I feel like if anyone could do it it's you.
I can't wait to see the personal shares too it sounds really fun
But I've seen that with a lot of like especially fantasy novelists is they don't specifically mention the disorder their character has but they write it well enough that the reader understands. I hope to see your own relationship to how that's addressed in your writing. XX
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