Write a romance novel

Just a couple of hundred words – it’s my new resolve to try and write every day, and not let it slip.

Another 500 words today. I find this a good amount, not too intimidating and strangely enjoyable. I kind of want to write more, but equally I just want to work on this and see how long it takes me to get it done.

I also find it strangely comforting to be able to post the word count here too – just a nice sense of building on something!

Well, I wrote my 500 words today, and it took me about 20 minutes. I mean, it’s rubbish, but I figure that if I keep at it, I can get this done in a few months. I’m writing a mills & boon, and it’s a very simple story.

I have my hero and heroine at breakfast, and he’s reluctantly asked her out to dinner. Reluctantly because they’ve just had a row and shouldn’t really see each other again, but he feels this compulsion and so does she – apparently it needs to be all push/pull, argument and making up, right the way through. They had the most inexplicable row which stopped them from having sex – I think I need to work that bit out a tad more, lol.

Anyway, am delighted that 500 words is so quick and manageable to write. I’m not a writer at all, I just want to finish this fecking novel and submit it, and then go back to the ‘real’ one that I was working on.

Well, I dug this out from the computer. I wrote it when I was doing the NaNoWriMo in December, and I’ve pared it right back. So I have this many words. It’s actually not too bad, I quite like my heroine and hero, and it’s a bit purple prose, but my first sex scene wasn’t too cringe-making when I read it again.

I am going to commit to writing 500 words a day, which isn’t exactly a momentously huge amount, and means it will be quite slow work to get to the 55k words I think I need (110 days, or about three and a half months). But so what? My resolution is to write and submit a Mills & Boon, and all I have to do is a manageable amount each day, and I will get this one done.