From the Raison d'Etre section of my newest writers guidebook, Discovering Your Novel.
How many miles have you traveled
on the road to writing your novel? If
you’re not far on that road, Discovering
Your Novel will help you drive through those problems.
No one else can write the novel
of your head and heart. That’s a road
you have to find and follow. Yet this
workbook, like a mountain guide, can guide your journey to publication.
Publication is the goal, isn’t
it? Not just to write but to share your
writing through publication.
I ask because I recently met a
NaNoWriMo[1]
participant ecstatic about her eighth year of participation after “winning” for
the previous seven years. Winning means
that she achieved the word-count requirement.
In seven years she’d written 350,000 words (minimum) yet still had
nothing published.
350,000 words.
Let that sink in. Most novels are around 75,000 words, with the
epics around 120,000. That’s at least
four good-sized books, or three-plus epics.
This writer may have submissions to agents and editors with traditional
publishers or small presses. All I truly
know is that she still wasn’t published.
7 years & 350,000 words and not published.
Ouch.
. . . .
If you're tired of playing at writing and want to start publishing, but ....
If the book you're writing seems to be going nowhere ....
If the plot is scrambled or the process fried you up ....
Discovering Your Novel can help. Check out the Table of Contents in the Look Inside feature of Amazon to see if my guidebook has the guidance you need.
[1]
NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month, every year in November. The group that runs NaNoWriMo (pronounced
Nano-Rhi-Moh) has a website with all sorts of templates for your perusal and
playtime. Writers who sign up to
participate have to write 50,000 words in one month, which is about 1666 daily.
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