Tomorrow is the first day of NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month where authors around the world take the challenge of writing the complete first draft of a novel during the month of November. I will be taking that challenge and probably won’t be posting as much because I will be working hard on that novel!
I’m actually working on the second book of my Anarchist Knight trilogy. I’ve spent the last two weeks going over and revising the first novel, Anarchist Knight Apprentice, which I wrote twenty years ago. I’ve cleaned up some errors and added a scene about time travel to help tie in the 2nd book.
Anarchist Knight Journeyman is a complex sci-fi novel with some time travel elements as well as intrigue and adventure. I’ve been re-familiarizing myself with the story since it’s been twenty years . . . and I hope I’m ready!
I’m using a writing program called Scrivener to organize and write this project. I’m also using Dragon Naturally Speaking to voice type or dictate the rough draft and will be using ProWritingAid to revise and polish up the rough draft and turn it into a polished manuscript later on. DragonNaturallySpeaking and ProWritingAid will not work together so I need to begin work with one and then finish with the other. They both work independently with Scrivener.
These programs are all new to me and I’m excited to find out how it will work. I am familiar with DragonNaturallySpeaking, but it did not work very well for translation projects so I set it aside. It should work very well for doing the rough draft of a new novel.The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days or around 1,665 every day! Wish me luck!
I’m planning to making the switch from translating stories to writing my own . . . we will see how it goes.
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