Plan of Attack

Hello anonymous readers...

Well, since I've started working on my new book, I thought it would be appropriate to make a quick mention of my 'overall plan.' I'm trying to maintain a steady diet of 2 pages a day. It doesn't sound like much to some and maybe quite a bit to most, but it's really (in my opinion) the way to do it. If I keep this rate up, I'll have a novel-length book done by the end of October.

That's not too far away.

Of course, there are going to be days (like today) where I fall behind a little bit. Conversely, there will also be days where the book just grabs me and I'll end up writing 5-7 pages in a single sitting. It can and sometimes does happen.

I'm a little over a week into this and I'm sitting at a nice, healthy 15 pages.

What? That's not very much.

Ah, but it is. I failed to mention that my pages are single-spaced & in 10pt font. So when I reach roughly the 150 page mark and I format it to the way publishers and such want it, it'll be over 300 pages.

That, my friends, is a novel.

Anyway...the book is coming along quite nicely. It's practically writing itself. I'm delving into a different sort of territory this time around, so I forsee some areas where I'll slow down a bit to make sure I get it right, but I'm digging what I've put together so far.

As for submitting my work? Kind of on the back-burner for now. I really want to get this 1st draft done. It's been sitting in my head for 8-9 months now and it's screaming to get out.

Page by page, it's coming...