To camp or not to camp

April fools day has come and gone along with the first day of April's NaNoWriMo Camp.  As I sit here 3 days into April,  having written less that 2000 words for the month and having missed my goals for January and February because of Bar Prep and testing I ponder whether a camp is exactly what I need to get back in the writing saddle.

March was a good month a started and completed a short story.  This kept me going for most of March but even with that I only wrote about 40,000 words for the month.  Once again I did not met my goal which I set at 100k to get caught for my years goal. 

Still have a number of projects that I need to finish,  revisions to be done on others, my lack of words has nothing to do with lack of ideas,  maybe the issue is to many ideas, which has lead me to be come a possum caught in the headlights. 

With this idea,  I have decided that I will Camp WriMo for April. Camp is unlike November with a set word count goal.  You get the set your own goals.  So here are my April goals.

• Start and finish a 3000 to 5000 word short story for the writers digest competition. 
• Make the revisions to Veil and finish the last 20 or so chapters,
• Write two chapters for the Red Book Expose.
• Sit down and re-read Cave City review revision suggestions and do my own mark up.

 Simple right!  Now that I have written them down, I just need to decide which will be my April Camp Project.   I'm leaning towards using the veil as the project that way I have deadlines and a group to keep me accountable.    However the smaller project of the short story might work as it will require a rough draft, working draft,  beta draft and final draft. 

Short story it is.  So now I just have to sign up and write.  Another day, another word.  More to come next week,  I will post some of my work and do a blog post about the advantages of real world righting groups vs.  online writing groups. 

Tell then,  read some, write madly and live fully.