Chaos

I can't believe it has been so long since I posted on here! I have been exceptionally lazy this last twelve months, but I never stopped writing, I don't think I can!
The title of the post relates to the title of the book I have been struggling with this year, although I alternate between carnage and chaos. I want to call it Call Centre Carnage but I feel that might give the wrong impression so chaos is more suitable, I think. It's a similarly light hearted book to my others but with a different set of characters. I wanted to try writing from the point of view of a different character, a young male, drawing on my observations of my son, grandson and local bartender. Maybe that's what has been my struggle. I have read books by male writers who never seem to quite 'get' the female approach and whose females feel two dimensional, so please let me know if my male characters come over like that. Maybe all my characters are like that, I have no idea as I've not had that much feedback, and quite frankly, I'm having too much fun writing these characters to worry about it. I have had lots of sweet comments from friends who do seem to like what I write, so that's good. I have lots of ideas for future stories, and I still have a part-edited, wish-fulfilment story to put up on Amazon but that might just be one for my own pleasure.
Right now it's coming up to another NaNo month and I'm flexing my muscles for the coming ordeal, I'm still recovering from the last one, which was where I started the Call Centre book. I am close to finishing it tho' and I am aiming for completion by the end of December so that should be fun.
I mentioned the other day to a friend that I 'had to' do something and she snorted in derision. As a stressed mum of two with more pressures than most, my pressure seems invisible, but as other writers will know, if we don't put the pressure on ourselves to complete an assignment, we find lots of ways not to complete it. I think writers must have the most strongly developed skill of procrastination than any other group.
So, the pressure is on, I will edit and publish Call Centre Chaos before Christmas, I will finish editing my Other Lives stories, the wish fulfilment novel, and I will complete November's NaNo challenge (NaNoWriMo for those who haven't encountered it before. Google it and you'll find out more.) It's the best way I know of getting the words down on paper, especially for those of us who are highly skilled in 'doing other things', as procrastination is otherwise known. You heard it here folks. I made a promise to you as well as to myself.