Sunday, November 15, 2020

November 2020

Whew! What a month November has been so far!

NaNoWriMo. The annual online writing event, National Novel Writing Month, is held in November. I have attempted and failed to write 50k new words during November three out of three times. Gotta love consistency. But this year it’s been tougher than usual to focus.

Publishing. My personal publishing schedule dictated that the second Detective McGregor mystery would move from the self-editing to the copyediting stage on November 1. Due to unavoidable circumstances, my manuscript didn’t make the leap on schedule. So, while I lined up another copyeditor, I had additional time to self-edit.

Writing Classes. Online Sisters in Crime (SinC) Guppy classes opened for registration, and there were so many Guppies trying to register, the site crashed. I was able to get the 2021 classes I wanted.

Election. Yup, that happened.

Pandemic. I cancelled my annual Thanksgiving weekend Bluegrass Turkey Jam. I had hosted it for 20 consecutive years, and I was going through Turkey Jam withdrawals. My son sent me this YouTube video to help me make it through until next year.