October 2008

That's right, Nanowrimo is on! No doubt the whole website has crashed multiple times already... and it's only 12:03.

My project this year is book two in the Hollywood Affairs series. Book 1 was last year and I really meant to get Book 2 written waaaay before this year's nano, but life gets in the way sometimes, ya know?

So this year, we follow Adam, successful New York investment banker (just pretend for the sake of the story that investment bankers are not all up the creek in today's economy, k?), and his wife... Wait, what? Yeah, his wife. They've been separated for years, but never got a divorce. Now Felice, a Hollywood comedy show writer, is down on her luck and needs Adam's help. His price is high, but after all, they are married. Wink wink, nudge nudge. And in exchange, Adam has promised to bail her out and sign the divorce papers. But can Felice share Adam's life-- and his bed-- for an entire week without losing her heart again?

It's gonna be way fun to write. Lots of snark, from both Adam and Felice. You'd kind of expect it from Felice. I mean, she's a comedy writer. But Adam gets some zingers too. If I can keep them from exchanging biting, witty banter long enough to have some drama, I'll count it a win.

So, are you doing National Novel Writing Month? What are you writing? Friend me, ok? (I mean, you know, once the site comes back up.) I'm streetmouse there.

*Post title tangent: "It Begins" was on a sign once at UNC when I was a student there. I can't imagine what prompted some gifted soul to strategically paint "SH" somewhere on the sign...