The Next Best Book Club discussion

Congrats on your upcoming book!

I did Nano for the first time this year and won. I haven't done the CreateSpace offer yet, though. I'm going through rewrites and restructuring right now. Hopefully I'll finish it done in time to get the proof copy, even if the novel still isn't polished.

How did your experience with CreateSpace go? You said stuff was missed ... I'm assuming you mean in terms of editing, right?

Oh! And what's your novel about?? Had you done NaNo before? And are you planning to do Script Frenzy?

Oh, gosh. I can't believe I didn't see your reply until just now! Sorry about that.

You story definitely sounds different. So is it basically a collection of short stories, but with the same central character--who happens to be in a coma? Funky. :o)

I'm glad createspace was pretty easy for you. I got online a few days ago and started fiddling with it. It looks fairly straight-forward. I just wish there were a way to NOT do ISBN numbers. All I want is a print. I don't intend to let the thing see the light of day any time soon. And yes, I know it's not supposed to do anything as far as using your first rights or whatever, but it still makes me feel uneasy.

I think my end word count was like 52k ... maybe 51. I don't really remember. I never wrote the climax, either. Once I hit the 50k mark, I just kind of sputtered out. I mean, the manuscript was SO horrible at that point! I love slender, elegant writing. What I ended up with was a mess of filler. Unnecessary description, silly dialogue exchanges, etc. The entire thing needed to be tossed.

I'm at the 40k mark in the rewrites and have added three viewpoint characters and additional subplots. And I'm pretty close to the point where I left off at the end of Nano. I'm hoping to hit 90k or 100k by the end of this draft and edit down to 80k. I always feel more comfortable cutting down and tightening a word count than I do trying to puff things up to hit a certain number of words.

Oh. What's my story about? Well ... it's basically about a sentient zombie who steals stuff for her necromancer. When she unwittingly steals a skeleton of incredible importance, all hell breaks loose. She's hunted by jackals from the Egyptian mythos, tracked by agents of a supernatural version of Mossaad, and forced into alliances with corpse-eating ghouls. If only she knew that no one's particularly interested in the skeleton itself, but the weapon hidden inside ...

*shrug* That's the gist of it. And it still needs a ton of work.

I thought about doing Screnzy for about a day, then realized that I'd rather be working on my silly zombie novel. :o)