Writing check-in

NaNoWriMo (the big one in November) is coming up in a couple months and I'm without an official idea. My plan as of now is to keep working on my WIP and add 50,000 words to in in the month of November, which isn't the same as writing an entirely new novel, but I think I need to step back and edit some of my tuff before I start any new projects.

I did both camps this year (which I've blogged about extensively, probably monotonously), and those were fun. My July camp novel was something new, but I really only liked one character and instead of editing the whole thing, just isolated the scenes with her and kind of turned it into a longer piece of short fiction, if that isn't too much of an oxymoron. If I continue with my WIP, it will be draft three of the story I've been working on since last year. I started it over a week ago, and I've completely retooled the whole thing. It was hokey, or hackneyed, or probably both. (There was a shooting subplot I was writing, then the Boston bombing happened and I didn't want to write it anymore.) Maybe I'll just turn everyone into zombies. Hipster zombies who drink a lot of coffee and use words like "bespoke."