I just read an article about how to change genre’s to ensure safety as a writer and boy, do I feel better now!

For better or worse, my current WIP is high fantasy, and as mentioned, I’m going to shoot for YA.  My next two novel ideas are either an historical romance or a paranormal romance /SF tale.  AND I have a wonderful idea for a non-fiction book that I haven’t seen out there yet.

So instead of being blah, I’m thrilled that genre-jumping is real.  Add to this my blogging and viola!

I am I am I am a writer.  (inner critic, your power dies a little more every day….)

Now the REAL questions is what do I do for NANOWRIMO? Write the romance, OR finish my WIP.  Hm…

 Yesterday in the shower, it was plain as day that my high fantasy WIP has to be YA.  The main character is, after all, 17, so what was I thinking?  This has some benefits:

• YA is 75,000 words, unlike the typical 110K or so for standard fantasy.  I’ve been just over 60K the whole length of this process, so I can maybe actually write a novel in a salable size.
• This makes a great way for me to approach the mother-daughter tension in the book which I’ve been struggling with, since it seemed to come out of nowhere.  Positioning as YA makes me consider a different audience, and breaking up with mom is right in there with teen angst.

There are some bad sides:

• As you know, I know nothing about fantasy. Turns out I know FAR LESS about YA.  sigh…

The next novel I’m writing may not be an historical romance, or I may go for broke and do 2 at the same time.  For now, I’m wiped out and need to get to my 5 minutes of editing…

 More great links for writers:

YWriter: a really GREAT little software for writers for  PC.

Mama’s Losing It Writer’s Workshops:  Prompts and other tidbits to get your writerly mama gene workin’

Tools for Writers: Katrina does a great job of listing resources that help develop your craft

How to Get your Book Published Workshop: from Writer’s Digest, a steal at $49

AutoCrit Editing Wizard

It’s about editing (or writing) when you don’t have time:

Five Minute Editing

Well, I feel terrible that I haven’t updated this blog, nor upgraded, nor redesigned.  If ANYONE is still reading, here’s what you  need to know:

I’M WRITING

Yes, truly, only 5 minutes a night and that leads into much, much more. Thought I was doing NANOWRIMO but I’m so deep in now, I feel silly to start my next novel.  Maybe I’ll do it on my own in the spring. But “Commoner Days” is coming along, at last! I have to find  a good system for remembering all the threads. If I had a Mac, I’d had Scrivener.  Hm, maybe after I get my Mac, I can start my next novel! Something to shoot for.

That’s it for now, I promise I’ll work on upgrading this week!  Happy writing…