It’s NaNoWriMo!

November marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month and while I am not working on a novel right now, I had a spark of inspiration regarding an old one.

If you read DARCY, thank you. It was planned as a first chapter in a larger story but that petered out after about seventy pages. Good news is I was able to mine it for other works. (Note: Don’t delete work that doesn’t seem to have a future. It might somewhere else just not where you initially planned).

DARCY will remain a solo short story but the concept it was going to be part of, that of a father raising a daughter on his own while things go bad, has new life. So I’m anxious to get on with it but just not yet.

My focus, regarding fiction, will have to remain on CHASING MAGIC until I get that out. So I’ll be penning away at that during NaNoWriMo while the rest of you write that next great novel.

How do you write that novel? Dedicate 500 to 1,000 words a day for this month and string them together. At the end, you’ll have at least a novella. It’s a start.

Tell me what you’re working on. Be part of the writing community by joining in the conversation here or in social media with your progress. Use the hashtag #NaNoWriMo in the Twitterverse. And we’ll see what we can have done by December.