I’m going to make a real attempt at National Novel Writing Month. I thought about blogging the experience, probably because I was subconsciously aware of what a wonderful excuse it would be to become distracted by the analysis… Follow me on Twitter. I hereby resolve henceforth to spend no more than 140 characters at a time in metawriting.
I expect the experience to be one hell of a mental challenge. The sheer volume of conscious idea generation ahead is a bit intimidating. Wish me luck.
I failed early and hard, but better than last year: About 4K words. I learned a lot, though, and came away more confident that I’ll eventually write a novel.
But November is a terrible time for starting one. December is worse. If it’s still on my mind come January, I’ll probably purchase the Scrivener software and pick up where I left off. I exported and saved my content, but the software is worth the price.