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Back in the Office and Working


Back in the office and working on working up something special for the blog. As some of you know, November is the National Novel Writer’s Month. NaNoWriMo.org encourages novelists to write a 50,000 word novel during the 30 days. It’s a difficult challenge, but a load of fun in a perverse, dizzily stressful way.

To some of my readers, including Barbara, writing 1,600 words a day isn’t a huge deal. As long as I’ve known her she has been able to crank out large volumes of high-quality writing. That just isn’t the way my writing machine works. Nevertheless, last year I came within 5,000 words of finishing that Strange-World-War-III-Book-That-Also-Has-Creepy-Stuff, now titled Revelation, during November

This year I hope to try something unique, something that you can all participate in. I just need to work it out first. Please stay tuned.

More tomorrow.


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Barbara said…
And, of course, I ferret out praise like a...ferret;> To be completely honest about my work ethic, I write in chunks not a nice orderly daily wordcount. If I divide my output by days in the week, I do write about a thousand words a day. (But generally I don't let math anywhere near my "muse".)

I am planning on using NaNo to finish an Urban Fantasy manuscript that's languishing midway through. I have it all plotted. (Which is part of my problem. Knowing what's going to happen always slows me down:P)
October 13, 2009 at 4:13 AM
Helicopters said…
November has become so famous! Novel a November, No shave November, Vegan Vember (made up by Kay and I).
October 13, 2009 at 4:28 AM
Mark H. Walker said…
No shave November, really? I bet that works for the werewolves. I would rename Vegan November Vegember, sort of like the widely overused, rOctober.
October 13, 2009 at 5:17 AM
Mark H. Walker said…
Barbara,

Yeah, I know what I want to do, I just need to come up with a plot. :-)
October 13, 2009 at 5:18 AM
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