The recent weeks have flown by…mostly due to the fact that we´re still settling in our new place and I´m getting used to my new job (while still working partly on my old one).
But this weekend I decided to enter the Writer´s Digest Bootcamp to get a good grasp on the first ten pages of my novel.
As I was telling The Chemical Engineer yet again about my publishing dream and how I wished I had more time to write, he turned to me and said, “But wait you already finished two books, how is writing a third one going to change anything?”
He meant it in the nicest way. He wasn´t trying to crush me under his shoe. He got that bewildered look on his face as soon as he saw my face and understood he pulled an Alex.
He simply wondered out loud about the time I dedicate to writing. My first reaction, after the “whaaaaaaaaaaaat????” was “You do know I´m going to blog about this.”
Of course he knows writing makes me happy but does it mean I´m going to get published?
Honestly, I don´t know. But my answer to him was. “If don´t keep trying, I´ll never know. And I am getting better.” It´s true. My revised first book isn´t as good as the first draft of Book 3. I am getting better. I am learning. And I love it.
So…will writing a third book change anything? Maybe. Maybe not. But I know that not writing it doesn´t even come to my mind.
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So…I´m interrupting my regular Happy Friday posts (they most probably will come back next week) to ask THE question I thought I had answered: Should I do NaNo?
The sensible answer would be: Are you crazy, Elodie? No you can´t! You´re already stretching yourself thin due to super busy-ness at work and you shouldn´t start something new because you have that rewrite on your plate…And your hubby already thinks you´re spending too much time on the computer.
But.
I will be querying around that time so I need to get my head into something else than checking my emails every two seconds.
Bending the rules is okay, right? I can do a rewrite.
This may enable me to organize myself even better when it comes to fitting in writing bursts.
It sounds like fun.
A lot of you are doing it 😛 and while I know as my parents used to tell me “if your friends would jump from a bridge, would you do it?”. I kind of want to be part of the experience.
I totally want the NaNo shirt.
So, tell me, what do you think? Are you doing NaNo?
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So, I have been tagged several times these past weeks and I also received an award…How fitting to receive the Lovely Blog Award from the lovely Jaime (and if you do not follow her blog, you really should because it´s a treat!) Thanks again!
Now, on to the tagging business. I have been taggboozzled (reference to Friends – because well, there´s always a possibility to refer to Friends).
In the past week, not one, not two but six wonderful bloggers tagged me.
Really, you should go and pay them a visit, it´s worth it…I promise.
And since all this tagging amounts to 61 questions (and I´m not sure anybody would go through reading 61 questions about me…), I will mix them in my magic mixer and tada…here is the result:
1. Think of one person you aren’t able to see for whatever reason (distance, availability, etc.) you would love to meet up with. Who is this person? This can be a famous person, a relative, a literary agent–anyone, as long as they are alive.
My grandmother.
2. If you were a crayon, what colo(u)r would you be, and why?
Blue. Like the sky. Like hope. Like happy.
3. When you get (or got) “the call” from an agent, who will be (or was) the first person you will tell (or you told)?
My hubby would be the first person I would tell. I´m not sure he´ll understand the words coming out of my mouth though, I might be a tad over the moon.
4. What genre(s) do you write?
I recently finished the first draft of a YA paranormal romance and I started a YA contemporary romance.
5. What is your secret weapon of choice?
My smile 🙂
6. If you could sit down for coffee with any historical figure, who would it be?
Louis XIV – I have a healthy fascination with this period.
7. What was the #1 song the day you were born?
My friend “Google” told me that the #1 song in the US on August 18th, 1981 was: Endless Love (Diana Ross & Lionel Richie)
8. If you could speak a (another) foreign language which would it be?
Russian. First, it´s a beautiful language and then…I could understand the jokes hubby and his family make – they´re not easy to translate…
9. Which series are you eagerly anticipating the newest release for?
I cannot wait for Insurgent by Veronica Roth! Just a few more months…
10. Keeping with the foodie theme, what’s your signature dish? Something you make that blows people away and that you luuuuurve.
Aussie Chicken. It´s a dish which resembles one from Outback (love that place) and it has a lot of yummy ingredients: chicken, honey mustard sauce, mushrooms, fried onions, mashed potatoes, bacon…hmmm
11. What’s something that made you smile today?
Catching up with one of my best friends (big hug across the ocean Tonya!)
If you´d like, you can use those questions on your blog as well 😀 Just let me know in the comments. Otherwise, tell me: what foreign language would you LOVE to learn?
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Elodie Nowodazkij 