After a few, “real-life” upheavals, I was ready to get started on Argentum once again. I say “was” because I quickly found myself in a bad spot — I don’t like the beginning of the book and the way it was written and I’m in love with the concept. Two, very emotional things that I am overcoming by changing my approach to this book.

First? I’m realizing that I am posting this book “in the rough” so to speak. This is new territory for me, because as a professional writer I feel a little more than vulnerable giving people the raw, rough unedited version of my work. There have been so many times where I’ve gone back, read something I’ve written and said, “Oh, yeah. This sucks.”

This year I’ve officially joined NaNoWriMo as a way to motivate me to finish this book and soldier on. Yes, once it’s done there will have to be changes made to the story to fix things like pacing and verb tenses — but I realize having a rough draft of the finished manuscript is more important than my feelings on the work.

The other way that I’m going to try and work around this roadblock is by being a little more open about my characters and why they’re so important to me. I’ve never done anything like that before because of my philosophy on the writer to reader relationship. Basically, as a reader it’s always been important to me to establish a relationship with the characters by reading the book. I often ignore hype for that reason. However, if I ever plan on trying to pitch the finished novel or selling the book this is something I’ll have to do. I’m not the greatest about “selling” my work. Usually I feel more comfortable selling someone else’s books.

Well, that’s all for now. I have some errands to run and such before I write for NaNoWriMo today. Check out my NaNoWriMo profile and if you’re participating, feel free to friend me. More later!