My Next Book

A 50,000-Word Writing Challenge in November

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How am I going to approach my next book? First, I want to say I haven’t yet figured out what I will be writing. I don’t know if it’s going to be a fictional account or something non-fiction. Funnily enough, I really don’t care. I mean, I know when you’re setting out to create a goal, you sort of need to be rather specific about it.

However, I also know when you are setting goals, they will change the closer you get into the plan. What you thought was going to work ends up not being the best plan, so you pivot and seek a more manageable route. Like water runs downhill. It will find the best path down. You could have built the channels, and the water will obey, or the water will leap and find its own way downhill. Just saying. Plans change.

So, right now, all I know is I want to write a 50,000-word book in November.

I’m using the platform offered for that by ProWritingAid. When NaNoWriMo laid down to die, the writers who participated had been bitten by that old writing bug. There are other challenges going on out there, but I happened to find the one being offered by ProWritingAid for free.

Now, here’s where I see that I’m going to need to adjust how I report my progress. I plan to use Plotter to outline and Scrivener to write. I haven’t used…