Managed just under 13k words in a week, doing extremely well some days, and not so great on my off-days (mystery health problems make things so exciting, no?) but they balanced out to the point that if I manage to keep up this kind of rate, I'll get to 50k well before the end of the month.
Over on Twitter, I've made quite a nice little following, and was actually approached by someone who owns Channillo.com! It's a serial publishing site, where you submit your stories as you go along. Can be short stories, poetry, or a novel, sent out in chapters. As I was saying to my husband yesterday, it makes me think of the old days of FanFiction.net (does anyone still use that? Am I showing my age? Just checked, it's still there, looks the same as it did uh, when I signed up, whenever that was, ahem...) when people posted one chapter at a time of their fan works.
Only, you get PAID. I'm all for getting paid.
Not getting paid to mention them, by the way, I just really think it's a great idea. Though if they happen to notice a bunch of clicks coming from this post, they're welcome to send me a nice kickback!
So all in all, I'm glad I decided to go for it, and write my novella (this is not going to be a full novel, I already know that, but it's still fun!) because it's getting me noticed by the right people, and I'm having a blast with the author community on the whole.
Now here's hoping that our cross-country trek later this month doesn't make it too hard to keep the groove going!
