Last year, I tried to write a novel for National Novel Writer’s Month, below is the word count widget, and I’m not sure how it works yet, but hopefully that will be self explanatory. I’ll put this on the sidebar like I’m a real blogger.
Last year, I didn’t make it. I burned out at about 20K, and to tell the truth, half of that was already written. I wanted to finally finish a novel I have been kicking around in my head for more than ten years now. This year, I’m going to take a short story, The Guardian , a disturbing ( at least to me) little story that I wrote some time ago and have always wanted to expand and explore. I have never tried to do this before, with any other storyline than the one I worked on last year.
I’m excited, a little nervous, and ready to exert my writing muscles a little, in what may be the biggest month of my life. You see, in the next few days, my girlfriend is having my first child. I am 42 years old, have been married once but had no children, and I am having a child in the next few days, (November 3rd is the due date). I don’t plan on expanding much on the birth of my child on this blog, I have ultrasound pictures posted , and will probably have another blog about my baby, this blog is about writing.
With one day left before the novel begins, I am trying to descend into that mindset in which I write. Doing it with all the distractions around me may be impossible, but I’m hoping that the urgency and the feeling that I am very ready to write again will push through it all.
Hope I bring some folks along for the ride.
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p.s. And since I think I’ve figured out the widget stuff, here’s another.
