Whoa, I still have a blog?

I always forget that this blog exists. Maybe if I remember to update it more often, I'll be able to use it as a tool to keep myself motivated. I'm going to try to hold myself accountable to posting at least once a week, and we'll see how it goes from there. (Haven't I said this before? Ah well.)

Currently, I am printing book one of a young adult fantasy quartet I have been drafting and redrafting for over three years now. Also, this printer is driving me insane, because for some reason we have no printer tray and so some, but not all, of the pages are out of order. This for some reason infuriates me more than if they were all out of order, and tells me that I need to stop this horrid habit of forgetting to put page numbers on anything.

Currently titled Summer of Betrayal, though I am looking for less...didactic...suggestions, should anyone care to toss some my way, this poor novel has gone through no less than four drafts, the addition of a new male protagonist and the switching of the former male protagonist into somewhat of a villain (for now, at least-- who knows where he'll end up?), and the battle between my two main female protagonists as to whose book this actually is. It began as Genevieve's, then Her Majesty Queen Marina took over, and then Genny wedged her way back into the main plot in a very large way, so I've told them they have to share.

Neither of them are very fond of this idea, but as they both have major plot arcs (that divert from one another in both type and location) in the rest of the quartet, they shall simply have to deal with it.

Novel printed (in 10 pt font because the less ink I use, the less likely my mother will whine) and not quite in order yet, I shall take it to work tomorrow, gratuitously borrow their three-whole-punch, put the book in order and in a three-ring-binder and let the editing games begin. Again. For the third time, with this book.

Hopefully, it will also be the last. I'm ready to shop this baby around, and frankly I'm ready for it to be completely done so that I can really dive into book two, and then after that books three and four, for which I now actually have plot arc sketches (thank you, Whitney, for your patience, and Wikipedia for your random article leaping that led me to an inspiring idea).

Till next Monday, then! Or sooner, should I be so inspired.

We'll see.

ETA: I was going to write about how I only managed 30k for NaNoWriMo this year and totally failed at keeping my attention on one story (that's right, I switched around four times), and the point of that was to lead into talking about this book because I burnt myself out the weekend before NaNo finishing it doing 22k in one weekend and this little ramble is mainly to explain why the URL says "nanowrimo-2010" when there is nothing about NaNoWriMo in this post.