Home Stretch

Three more days until the end of NaNoWriMo… and I’m nearly there. Since last week I’ve been writing what is more like a journal than an actual story, but writing down my thinking process does help me see my next book much more clearer. I’m a planner, as opposed to a “pantser” (NaNo slang for someone who writes blindly, by the seat of their pants, so to speak.) I like to plan as much as I can when developing a new story and write it all down, because it helps me think, and besides, you’d never know when an idea dismissed earlier on as crazy might turn out to work after all. Usually I write them down by hand rather than on a...