So, April has arrived. That means that Saturnalia: Creature Court Book Three needs to be well underway. My current plan is to write 20,000 words per month, which is my favourite sustainable level of writing – unlike Nano’s 50,000, it allows me to do some other things at the same time!

20,000 words a month means 1000 words a day on weekdays only. Factoring in weekends is still a new concept to me – it’s a little counter-intuitive when you have kids because your first thought is “oh, my honey is home then, this means tons of time to myself” which is of course entirely wrong. Weekends are nice. Having days when you don’t have to work makes for a better, more intensive working week.

Given that the 50,000 words I produced of this book during last Nano turn out to be actually pretty good (I KNOW, what were the odds?) I should have a half decent draft by the end of June.

Today, Raeli and I started bailing toys out of the playpen – Jem is going to need it stat, as she’s well and truly on the move. One of the essential writer’s accessories is a baby who is not currently choking herself on fabric scraps.

Tomorrow, I write again – I seem to have set myself up to do a sex scene next which is awesome- nothing writes up faster! I wasn’t going to have one that early in the book, but as Kaia said this morning, my characters have probably spent my entire “fallow month” in bed with each other anyway, so I might as well let them get on with it.

Tags: creature court, jem, mama writer, raeli, saturnalia, writing