Beth Lyons

Yep, it happened. I hit the wall. I got up this morning and looked at my word count — 35,000 and some change — and I thought, I can’t do this. I thought, Why bother with this? What does it really matter if Beth Lyons writes 50,000 words in the month of November? Who cares? Quite honestly, who would care? Besides me being disappointed in myself, of course. But I sat down, opened the laptop and sloughed through a 2-hour session this morning while Debbie was still asleep, and I got a thousand more words written on Thornwood. There were …Read more »

As the sun sets on day two of NaNoWriMo I feel pretty good about my progress. Thanks to two days of focused writing I’m a touch over 8,000 words. I knew what I wanted to write for this, my first attempt at writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. It’s a hard boiled fantasy — sort of a Lord of the Rings meets the Maltese Falcon. Debbie suggested it, in an offhanded sort of way and as usual, I was off and running with the idea. I created a few character sketches ahead of time, mapped out the opening scene, …Read more »