March 15, 2006

My Novel Month

So today was the first day of my offical novel writing month. I have a partner who is doing it with me and at 8:00am we got crackin’ with the laptops and requisite cups of warm stuff to drink. After our first break we busted into bowls of muesli. I’m excited that I have a neato idea. I just don’t know how to execute it. But I guess I’ll figure that out each morning.

The word count for this morning was 1,698 words. I struggled at the end, because I wasn’t really sure what kind of opening scene I was setting up. But the point is just to get something on the page. I can go back and fix it later.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to seek readers during the process or after. We’ll just see. After a week I may need a reader to give me some kind of feedback or ask me the right questions.

I’d better lay my little head down soon so as to get a good night’s rest for tomorrow’s second installment.