Today I have a guest post by my friend Julia. We met on twitter last year and as she mentions below, I watched with fascination as she – along with many of you – went through NaNoWriMo (National Writing Month). I must confess that my muse doesn't respond well to deadlines and pressure so it's not an activity I've ever done. I did try to be supportive to her LOL!

So then we were chatting recently and I asked her what the next steps might be for a NaNoWriMo novel and voila – a guest post was...