For those of you who have been following my blog I’ve mentioned National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo or NaNo, before. In April and in July, the organization offers Camp NaNo, just because we’re (writers that is) not crazy enough.

Anyway, I had this idea for a series. Stories about a fictional space station. I’ve been writing what I consider to the the first book of the series this month as part of the Camp NaNo challenge. (Writing 50,000 words in one month.) I’m not happy with my book. It seemed fine enough in outline but it’s not working. Yesterday is the first time in the 20,000 words I’ve written so far that I actually had a writing day that wasn’t a drag.

This is the first time since participating in the NaNo challenge (this is my 4th one!)  that I’ve had such a poor experience. I already know the problem. The book is boring. It’s cerebral, not much action. I’m growing as an author if I can figure that out for myself. So I’m happy in that regard. I’m going to keep writing this book, because I know it can be a compelling story. Yesterday was a good start.  I just have to keep that action and excitement going. Then in a couple of months, go into revisions with a heavy hand to improve the first half.

In the meantime, I just reissued my first book, The Bad Seed. My inexperience was obvious when I put it out. I’ve spent the last two weeks reformatting it so that it now looks more professional. It should be available on Kindle tomorrow. I’ve priced it fairly low, (the ebook) at $2.99. If you buy it, I’d appreciate a review on Amazon.com.

Oh, and happy Tax Day!