And then She Went Mad

Since you have't heard much about how my novel, Capture Me Strong, is going, you may have pictured something like this:

Jessie printed  out her manuscript, read over a few pages, realized she had the beginning of the story ALL WRONG. Again. And then she tore the manuscript to pieces, went mad and tossed it in the garbage. Then she realized it was only the beginning that was wrong, so went dumpster-diving to pick out the shreds and tape them back together. Only to discover the end wasn't very good either. And then she drank some tea. 

But no. I DID print out the manuscript. And now I'm raking through it to fix tiny typos and such. I shouldn't be raking through. They say a writer never truly feels like the book is finished and ready, but you just have to take the plunge and decide it's done, dangit, at some point.

I just don't want to give this manuscript to my (FANTASTIC) beta readers and them find a bajillion typos and think I'm a bafoon wannabe writer. But...that might happen anyway, so...

I also have to mail it to myself because then it will be copyrighted, so if anyone tries to steal it, they will be in giant trouble.  Don't steal. Plagiarism is the worst sin. Satan got kicked out of heaven for plagiarizing  Or...was it something else...? (It was.) 

So, what am I dong in the meantime? 

Oh, nothing. Just...a little something called NaNoWriMo. What? Oh, you can't read that. I said NaNoWriMo!!!! Don't know what that is? National Novel Writing Month. Write a 50k word novel in the thirty days of November. Want to know more? Check out the site. 

I'm doing this, but I'm getting a dreadfully late start. It's day 15 (exactly halfway ohmygosh!) because, you know...life happened. Ahem. I MARRIED THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! His name is Gary. I'm quite fond of him. My name is now...(ready?)...(drum roll, please.)...Mrs. Jessie Mullins! That was official on Octoer 20th. Yay! 

And also my computer died for good. So. We're living together now. Paying bills and stuff. Gary is amazing enough to tell me it's okay (he even wants me to because he believes in me and my writing so much) focus on my writing and not get a "real job". Not many people believe in me like he does. Aah. So, anyway...bills and stuff. And so I don't have a computer right now. This means when I can work on NaNoWroiMo, I need to binge-write to get this baby done. (Then why am I making a blog post??) I assure you, I will get it done. BEAST! 

To wrap it up, here' a quick synopsis of my NaNoWriMo novel, which is also the next novel I will be seriously working on toward my career and dreams of being a published author. I'm calling it Ashes to Ashes for now. 

Frances loses her dad to stage four prostate cancer the night of her high school graduation. All she has known for the past seven years was taking care of her dad. With her mom gone, too, and her big sister's disappearing act four years ago, Frances has had no life aside from getting good grades and keeping her dad alive as long as possible. When he passes, Frances can think of nothing to do except to honor her dad's dreams of riding his Harley across the country to the Hollywood sign. Problem: She's deathly afraid of motorcycles. Oh, and her sister is suddenly back in the picture...with a very cute, and very bad, motorcycle-riding cowboy. 

He miiiight look like this. Enjoy. 

 Thanks for reading! 

Jessie