Sorry I’ve been totally remiss with my blog. I’m still in the middle of Fast Draft, and it’s sucking up all my time. Of course, if that’s not bad enough, I’m also working on a short novella. It’s very different from my usual tone. No body count or anything like that. Actually it’s rather…fluffy…?

All the King’s Women is going to require a ton of revision, but I like it that I’m doing Fast Draft because I’m beginning to understand my heroine’s motive and her relentless drive. She appears a bit ruthless at times, but the reason for her increasingly Machiavellian method is obvious and sympathetic as the story unfolds (or so I hope).

I’ll post more about Fast Draft and lessons learned on May 15.

It didn’t go as well as I wanted. I didn’t start writing until at least 2:30 p.m. Not a good thing.

Still got 20 pages done, barely.

It started out a bit slow, but wrote 22 pages. Yay!

It’s starting today!

Just twenty pages to go.

My CPs are doing it with me: Jennifer, DD, Valerie and Fionn.

Go us!

Does anyone want to do Fast Draft with me from May 1 - May 14? It’s basically writing 20 pages for 14 days.

FYI — each page is formatted Courier New 12 double-spaced.

I want to try this method (I’ve never used it before) to get the first draft of All the King’s Women written.

If you’re interested, please comment.