I totally forgot, when I wrote my post for the week, that Camp NaNoWriMo would be coming up again in July.
I didn't participate at all in the April session of Camp. In fact, April was almost over before I knew it, thanks to the scramble to get ready for the doll show.
The April session of Camp is always hard for me. I think it's because there always seems to be a lot else going on in April, between the annual doll show, taxes, and my birthday in late April. Last year my horse Panama got sick in April, too, so there was that to navigate as well.
I do plan on doing Camp this July, however. I have to decide whether I'm going to use the opportunity to finish my draft of Ruby, or work on the new novel idea I had recently. I think I'm better off working on Ruby, honestly, and using the new novel idea as something I can work on after finishing the draft (as I subscribe to the Stephen King method of revisions that says to let it sit for a little bit before going back to it).
Camp NaNoWriMo offers more flexible project goals than November, which means I'll have the ability to do what works for me. I think I'd really like to have the draft finished by the end of July, so I might need to see where I'm at on June 30th and estimate my word count goal from there. In general the novel is taking longer to get where it's going this time around, which is fine (it was too short and not fleshed out well enough before) but also means I am not as close to the end as I'd like right now. If I had to guess, I'd say I'm about a third of the way into it, which means I may have more than a month's worth of writing to do unless I'm planning on being super prolific in July.
I guess that means I definitely need to get back to work on the novel next week as I mentioned in my accountability and progress posts!
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