By now you've noticed there's no story this week.
That's because I've decided to work on my second novel as part of National Novel Writing Month and I can't divide my attention between the two right now. I'm still going to post occasionally to explore the process of working through the project, but I'm going to keep them short and sweet to leave myself some time to actually write the story.
For those of you who don't know, National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for short) is a challenge event anybody can join, held once a year in November for the last... I want to say sixteen years? The idea is simply to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. You can do all the prep work you want (I didn't) but you can't write a single word of the draft you're using for NaNo until November 1st.
Now, 50k sounds like a short novel, and it breaks down to only 1,667 words a day. Some people will find that a drop in the bucket, but its easy to fall behind if you miss a day or two. I'm behind schedule myself, having only just over 4k words so far on the 4th day, in part because my car broke down and I'm walking back and forth to my day job while its in the shop.
Either way, I'm not giving up. I'll discuss a bit more about my actual story in the next post, or you can come read more about it by visiting my NaNoWriMo author page here. And consider starting a NaNo of your own. You still have time to catch up and, after all, it's more about getting into a regular writing habit than actually grinding out a novel in lightning round mode!
But whatever you do, keep on Living Halloween.
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