Nano day 17: I'm behind on the word count, but progress is steady. I have a workable plot for book 2 and an ENDING. The goal is to always get the main character back at home with her kid at the end of every book. This is the set up for the disaster at the beginning of the next book.

The first book is going through another round of edits as the typos remain.

My writer's group gives it great praise for engagement and  told me I have a talent for sucking them into the story. Pretty high praise from this crew of literary writers that don't normally pay attention to Science Fiction.

On that note, I realized that The Gravity Key series is SPACE OPERA (space trash) a genre that includes soft Sci/fi and fantasy.
Love Lisa

@scifiotica on Twitter
The Gravity Key on FaceBook

My kingdom for a reasonably priced editor.

Nano day 7. Over 9300 words and the assassins chasing the MC across the galaxy are a race of females that read your mind and project the image of someone you like onto themselves.

Wow, nano day 3 and I'm at 4222 words!

First day of Nano Wrimo is complete. I've written over 2400 in my new story The Key to Mnau.

2019 Pre NANOWRIMO Blog for THE KEY to Mnau

I'm going to dive into my second novel this November. I have a workable outline of where this story should go and I'm hoping I can stumble upon some vile acts for my major villain. I had to revise the ending of novel#1 "The Gravity Key", to make it more open-ended. My brother came up with a  wonderful and stunning idea for the original ending, (and I'm going to use that idea in the new book) but I found that it locked me into a storyline that I couldn't write.
The Gravity Key needed serious editing because my editor didn't do a great job and there were some terrible typos. So, I'm fixing them, doing a few minor changes and adding suggestions from the writing group I joined.

 My pre NANO checklist includes

1. Find a writing buddy to make me accountable. To reach the goal of 50k words I'll need to average 2000 words a day if I want time off for Thanksgiving.
2. Clean my desk space in the laundry room, and make the kids take their laundry elsewhere. 
3. Pretty the desk up and add a candle.
4. Pre-plan the meals. Shop early for Thanksgiving.
5. Think up five deranged and sick things for the villain to do. (ask Twitter friends) 
1. Thank you, Peter: A little troll that messes with the sun and causes the planet to overheat.
2. Thank you Gray One: A couchie parasite that causes errogenous feelings. 

 To be contiuned...
Love Lisa