I started my current WIP ("The Viagra book") on December 1. It felt like I was dragging my heels on this book. I'd sit down to write, not feel inspired, go back and edit, write some more, yada yada yada...
I've got 12 chapters done and about 6 maybe 7 to go. I'll be done by Feb. 1 at the lastest. The last chapters are all in my head and I just have to put them on the page.
It's weird. It feels like I've been working on this book FOREVER, but it'll be ready for my critique partner in about 4 weeks. This is how the Pig Book went ("Candy, Corpses, and Classified Ads", releasing on Feb. 29). I wrote that book in a blur, words just flying off my fingers. "Autographs, Abductions, and A-List Authors" was the same way (that book releases later this year).
I think all my first-person books are 8 week books. My third-person books are 12-week books. And my paranormals are 16-week books (but those are time travel books and require a LOT of research).
I've written enough of them now to see this as a pattern. I need to start shifting things around, interspersing a 16-weeker with an 8-weeker, etc.
I may get this writing thing figured out eventually...
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