I started the word document that is going to hold my novel. It is going to be a historical romance set in regency England because that is what I love to read and I heard some advice somewhere that you should write what you would want to read! My word document doesn't contain very much at this point. I have been thinking about my plot today while I should have been concentrating on other things and I caught myself staring into space while I was at Starbucks! Luckily no one noticed or else this is just normal for that particular Starbucks. It's hard to tell.

After drinking my vanilla latte, I went apartment hunting and realized a few important things: I have no idea how a manor house was set-up, what the streets looked like or what all the carriages they used where called. For all my historical  romance reading and Jane Austen obsessing, I have not learned very much about the time period. I guess I will just have to read one of Jane Austen's novels again. Sigh..... I wonder which one would be best!?

To conquer 90,000-10,000 words of romantic historical fiction.

This is the length required by Avon Books and since I love reading books published by then. Therefore I will strive to meet their requirements. It is a daunting task. I have written 8-10 page papers in college, but those have all been double spaced and usually in the largest font I could possibly do. Unfortunately there is no way to double space 10,000 words!

To do this I am going to write a chapter a month for the next year, with May being the beginning month. This means I only have to write 833 words per month! I'm not sure if that makes me happy or not.

Here is the website to Avon Books if you are interested. It is a really nicely put together website and the submission requirements are at the bottom of the home page.
http://www.avonromance.com/