I’m eight days into July and 13,000 words into my July Camp National Novel Writers Month, called July Camp NaNo http://campnanowrimo.org for short. I’m also checking out another community, called July Novel Writing Month http://julnowrimo.com/. I have writing friends working in each site and some, like me, recording our progress on both sites. Each site is a community, (see my post on July 18th on Community!) dedicated to helping the writer get through a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month.
So far, I’ve been writing about 2,000 words per day on my 2nd book in the series I used to call TriPoint Station and have since changed to Gulliver Station. CJ Cherryh wouldn’t have been threatened at all by my use of her name for a space station but why cause her any embarrassment. There are four books in this series. I wrote the 4th book first, in November 2012. I know, but I hadn’t planned for it to be a 4th book, I was hoping it would be a 1st book in a completely different series. After I wrote it, I realized I didn’t have series material for my protagonist. But I was captivated by the space station world I had just developed. Go figure.
Anyway, I wrote book 1 in April, Gulliver Station: A New Start (all titles subject to change.) And now book 2, Gulliver Station: The Challenge. Book 3 will be drafted in November: Gulliver Station: Revolution. The 4th book is called Stories from Gulliver station. It contains a novelette and some short stories. None of the drafted books have been revised yet. I’m still hemming and hawing over exactly how I want them to come out, as well as still struggling to learn my craft enough to revise them properly. I hope to start publishing in January 2014. We’ll see how that turns out.
Speaking of publishing, I have my newest book, Recall, up on a promotion on Smashwords.com. For a limited time, it will be free to download. Go to http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Connie+Cockrell and use coupon code SW100. Go today. This promotion won’t last long.