My Clarion Write-A-Thon Delayed Until Monday!
As you’ll remember, I was supposed to start live-writing my new novel for you tonight. And I shall write it for you!
Just on Monday instead. (But no worries, I’ll still write for four weeks, so you won’t miss a day.)
The reasoning’s twofold: first of all, I always forget how long writing the opening chapter to a novel takes, and thanks to me oversleeping I only have about an hour to write tonight. (Figuring out how to set all the factors up is possibly my least favorite part of writing a novel.) Ideally, I want at least two or three hours so I can bang my head against the keyboard until I come up with something good.
And secondly, quite honestly, watching the fallout from the Brexit vote is stressing me out to the point where I’m having problems switching gears to an equally-stressful opening chapter. Though this eventually swells into a magical musical Ragnarok, the heroine of this book starts in dire, nonmagical economic straits – $8.10 in her pocket, living on the streets, begging to wash dishes – and emotionally, I need a day or two to switch into that headspace comfortably.
So. If you have any money left after a global economic collapse, and can donate $10, then you can read about how to watch me live-write my new novel (along with blog posts detailing the techniques I’m using) here. It’s a pretty cheap writing workshop, all told. And it starts Monday, when I’ll have a lot of time to discover just who this new heroine of mine is.
(And to give her a name. Which I haven’t done yet. Wondering if I can get away with “Melody.”)
Have you considered starting a Patreon account? 🙂