October Summary and NaNoWriMo Challenge Thingy
So, first off. October was my best e-book sales month yet, with 184 sales (that I know about, SW hasn’t reported for October for the places like Sony and Apple). 124 of those sales were from post-free sales last weekend after the short story collection and the novel I had up free went back to paid. Seems a little crazy, but giving away thousands of copies of my work seems to help sell the work later. Who knew? I’m definitely going to continue with the experimenting there.
A year ago, my friend Amanda and I bet each other that we could write 100,000 words a month. We both owe each other a lot of dinners, because neither of us ever made it to 100,000 in a single month. Between the health problems, the job loss, Clarion, and other things, my own writing this year fell off a lot.
But it is November again. Which means time for another November Crazy Challenge. I’m not actually going to do NaNo this year because I’m currently working on novellas, but I’m going to be a NaNo rebel and go with that.
So what’s the challenge? Finish five novellas this month. The word total should be around 110,000 because one novella is already partially done, so even though I’m aiming for 25,000 words per book, I don’t quite have to write 125k to get there this month.
The word count breakdown is 4,075 a day for 27 days. It isn’t 30 days because I’m going to be at Orycon and I know I won’t get anything done on those days.
I’ll post what I got done at the end of the month and probably keep a running tab on Twitter.
I know, I know, I can hear the head-shaking now. Yep, I’m sure that everything I write will suck, blah blah blah, why don’t I slow down and make the books good, blah blah blah, why don’t I work less than four hours a day because writing for four hours a day is nuts, blah blah blah. The nice thing is, no one will ever know what I wrote during this time and only other writers seem to care how fast something gets written anyway. Good thing, too.
Anyway, if anyone is also doing NaNo, I’m around on the forums over there. Good luck to all of you. Writing daily is a great habit to develop. Go forth and do it.
