It's been almost two-and-a-half
months since I've written anything for my second romance novel, an adult
Contemporary with a paranormal element running through most of the storyline,
which has the working title of “His Darkest Secret.” It has reached a point where I’ve become
totally frustrated not being able to think of anything to write to move my
manuscript to completion. I know
precisely what to write for the last chapter, a chapter where things are
wrapped including the reveal of the dark secret Bill had hidden from Jessica.
With nothing else to do, I decided to
clean out some of the old files I have on WORD. I wound up deleting about 40 items I no longer
needed, and moved another 25 into new file folders. And in the process of doing
this I found a LONG FORGOTTEN file [from July 2007] consisting of a single page
which I’d planned to be another Contemporary romance novel but have never gone
back to it. Since reactivating this file
this past Wednesday, I’ve written about 2,500 words [including a rewrite of the
single page I had found]. My plan for
this endeavor is to have it be a novella with approximately 35,000 words, and
right now I’m giving it a working title of “It Had All Been a Game.”
The stats for “His Darkest Secret”
are: 34 Chapters with 234 pages and approximately 68,400 words. I’d love to
complete this manuscript by mid-summer, if not sooner. In regards to “It Had All Been a Game,”
writing about only 500 words a day, I could be able to complete this endeavor
by the middle of May.
No comments:
Post a Comment