A word of caution to all those who know and love me:
I love you very much and wouldn’t dream of hurting your feelings but this month is going to be a bit on the wild side due to the National Novel Writing Month challenge of writing a complete novel of at least 50,000 words in the month of November. SO….. if I don’t answer the phone, or the door, and you know I’m home, don’t worry, don’t be hurt, I’ll be out to see the light of day on Dec. 1 and we can play then. I’ll try to remember to put the door hanger on the outside door that says writer at work so you’ll know all is well. And keep in mind I’m a nocturnal creature by nature. All offers of chocolate cookies will be heartily accepted, just leave in a tin on my table in front of the rocker on the front porch ;~) If you happen to come by and I’m on the porch, I will put my pen away for a bit and will let you know when it’s time for me to go back to work. Count on about a half hour, maybe 45 min.
My novel so far:
I’ve been working on all the pre-write work like structuring, back-story, and outline for the past week. I’m very excited with where this story is going. After generating a list of possible story ideas I chose to go with an old idea from 25 years ago when I was freelancing as a calligrapher. I had done a bit of plotting of it at that time but tossed it all out except the method and then updated the victim and pulled another character out of a more recent story idea. The working title is “In the Balance” and of the murder mystery genre. I’ve had such fun withback-story and character development and I want to start the writing NOW but must wait till November first. You can bet I will be at the keyboard at the stroke of midnight.
