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Well, there’s one week ’til the start of National Novel Writing Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’ll be pleased to know that I do have an idea for my novel. It could be 175 pages worth of idea. Let’s hope…<\/p>\n

I’m going to write a mystery. The idea is the combination of a suggestion from Dad, current D.C. events, and general answers to my late night questions provided by Rudi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have a protagonist. I have a victim. I don’t have a perpetrator yet, but I’m sure I’ll be surprised as I go along.<\/p>\n

My goal for the month is to write every day. I have lots of fun things planned for the month of November, so I’m not going to stress about the word\/page count. If I get to 175 pages or 50,000 words, that’ll be great. But if not, that’ll be fine, too. I have a bad habit of abandoning things that I can see clearly aren’t going to work out, so I want to remove that impediment from the start. If my goal is merely to write something — anything — for 30 days, that seems accomplishable and easy to rebound from if I slip off the wagon. If I were to stick with the official rules and didn’t write the necessary 5 pages a day to stay on track, I could see abandoning the project after the first weekend in November.<\/p>\n

So, I’m starting the typing exercises. Warming up the computer. Clearing the extraneous stuff from the schedule. But also keeping it realistic and fun and meaningful in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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