A while ago, I was
listening to Adrienne Bell and Eliza Peake chatting on the Misfit’s guide to
writing Indie romance podcast. % %
Honestly, podcasts are
my new drug. So many to listen to, so little time…
But at any rate,
Adrienne was talking about how she had set herself a large goal for 2020. She aimed
to write half a million words, and she was really nervous about hitting that
target. And she thought some other people might have the same issue.
In the spirit of
supporting each other, and accountability and all those kind of phrases, she
set up a group for it. Pick your own target. Pick your own method: plot/pantser ,
daily writing/weekends only … whatever works for you.
The symbol is a cute
tortoise – slow and steady – and you join by invitation only.
It’s called Write Hella
Words ^^ and is a slack channel. [Not Facebook – thank GOD. I hate FB with the
passion of a thousand suns.]
Before I had time to
talk myself out of it, I sent her an email and asked to join.
And she said ‘ yes’.
What on earth was wrong with me? I’m in a writing group with people and I buy their
books! Rachael Herron, Sophie Littlefield and Adrienne Bell… and my brain keeps
shouting at me:
YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE.
So I’ve got a massive
dose of imposter syndrome.
But I digress… now the
thing with half a million words is that it’s not only a lot of words; it is a lot of books. A romance novel is
anything from 40k – 100k according to all the definitions. A thriller about 55-80k.
So – if you do the math – 500k is 10-12 small books or five biggish ones.
It’s a LOT, okay? Like a
whole series of books.
So I spent some time
working out which stories to write and setting up a system which hopefully
works to write them all.
I’m shooting for six
books, so I guess that gives me two months to complete each one.
And it’s already
February.
Wails: “I’m a fake; I shouldn’t
be in this group.”
Excellent, thanks
brain. Good to know its situation normal.
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