I am finally getting around to adding share links from this web journal over to my Facebook page on the off-chance that someone will read it.
To recap on the current situation — my son, Matthew, made a remarkable request of me. As a 18th-birthday present to him, he asked that I participate in NaNoWriMo, (National Novel Writing Month). The short form is that you’re supposed to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November. I gave myself the goal of 2,000 words a day. Not counting today (and I haven’t started today’s writing yet) I have hit that mark 12 times, and fallen short three times (blame the election — I do). Thus far, I have done 26,800 words. These are words that I have added to the manuscript I have been fiddling with for years, and the total word count on that book (which I envision as being volume 1 of Something Big) is 96,258.
Just to keep myself honest, I have been posting my word count and fiddly updates at my personal web journal: The View From Here.
I have been resisting the temptation to do much writing about writing, and have not done more than created an account at NaNoWriMo.org, as practically anything can serve as a distraction from actually writing words for the book, and 2,000 words a day takes some doing even without distractions. I’ll write more about the experience AFTER the month is up.
All for now,
This is great! Mike and I were inspired to do some reading after we heard about Matthew’s present. Mike’s reading The Ocean of Years. I’m catching up with my favorite characters in The Game of Worlds.
Love,
VR