NaNoWriMo – How I did in November

Last month, I tried my hand at the NaNoWriMo challenge of writing 50,000 words in a month in an attempt to kickstart Novel Two of the Haven Chronicles.

I got off to a good start, but then real life got in the way, in
the form of:

taking part in the Chester Literature Festival, twicecoming down with a cold-bug that floored me for about a weekcopywriting work for a client – well, we all have to pay the bills

My final word count ended up at just over 16,000 words. It’s not
50k but it is a constructive chunk of work (and several chapters into my
novel).

It also forced me to look at the plot-line for Book Two and decide
whether it really worked. That’s the thing with writing – or at least, it is
for me – until you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, you don’t know if
what you’ve written is the right way to go.

This month is all about finishing a commissioned murder
mystery play for a theatre group up in Scotland and preparing for Christmas. I’ll
return to Novel Two, with an altered plot-line, once Christmas Day is over.