It seems like last year’s National Novel Writing Month was
not that long ago but it has been a year. Last year I couldn’t keep up the writing
because of work and classes. This year threatens to be the same. In fact, in
terms of hours, this year may be even worse. I have class after work Monday –
Thursday. This leaves me with time to write on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
only. With a little math, that leaves me 14 days in November, and If I am going
to make the 50,000 word goal, I will have to churn out 3571 words on each of
those non-school days. A daunting task to say the least.
I am going to go for it.
There is no penalty for failure. If I come short of the
goal, then I can just add those words to the pile and still call it progress. I
am going to continue on the book I was writing last year, Cascade. It was
inspired by my trip to Banff in Canada to visit my sister-in-law and some of my
wife’s college friends. It is fiction but not science fiction or fantasy as are
most of my ideas.
I have never been short on ideas. I keep my story ideas on a
OneNote file and go over them from time to time. I have about 20 story seeds
there right now. My problem is stamina. Sitting down to write with consistency on
the same topic is my greatest weakness. As you can probably tell from the
frequency at which I post on this blog, my writing time, never really consistent,
has dwindled in the last few years. That is the true challenge of writing for
me. I know that I have a novel in me but if I can ever dedicate myself to
getting it out is yet to be seen.
Today I head to the local National Novel Writing Month
kickoff to meet the other writers in my area and get my head in the game. I
have also made plans to start writing on midnight, October 31st / November
1st with a friend. I will get out as much of this as I can. I also
have to remember to keep writing outside of November. It will not do to only
write one month a year; I have too many ideas. I need to make this part of my
life, and if nothing else, I can write a blog post every now and again.
Wish me luck
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