To Do Lists

I had the brilliant idea a few months ago that I needed to add update this blog to my daily to do list.  And it has been on my list religiously for several months now. This past Saturday, I set up a new habit to work on, completing my to do list. And while this update is late, it has been on my list every day since Tuesday. Course Tuesday and yesterday I was out of the house most of the day so I couldn't update but I got to it today!

So, good news, I finished Paul and Maddie's book! I won't be complaining about them anymore. Now I'm in prep mode for NaNoWriMo. If  you don't know what that is, go now to their site. It's amazing.

I have participated in NaNo for 4 years in a row now and loved it each year. The first year I did a rewrite of story I had worked on previously. It is called Of His Own Accord. The second year, I did a story about a romance novelist and a SEAL, To Tame a SEAL. It was pretty awesome. The third year, I wrote a story, Not Quite Paradise, that is part of the same series from the first year I participated. It turned out really well, I loved that story. Last year, I went with an entirely new idea, The Taming of the Chauvinist, new series, new characters, it was great but after I hit 50,000 words, I stopped and never finished it. On top of that I wasn't happy with where the story was going and gave up.

The year of NQP, I woke up one morning just before NaNo began and knew the story. The entire story. Basically I just wrote what I had dreamed that morning.

Last year, I had a similar thing happen but it didn't include the entire story and when I was writing it, it took on a life of it's own and went a way I wasn't happy with. I haven't finished it yet as a consequence.

I've had several ideas for this year's NaNo. I'm still not sure which one to write. But I'm thinking about it and will update this with a firm decision hopefully next Tuesday!