It’s another year, another November, and NaNoWriMo is here. I’m about nine days too late for writing this introduction post, but better late than never, right?
Around Halloween, I was starting to agonize over what I was going to write in November. Should I try short stories? Should I even try at all? On the first day of NaNoWriMo, I ended up writing about a thousand words of a nonfiction piece that turned into an assignment for an online workshop I’m taking provided by The Writer’s Studio. Oh well.
I decided I didn’t want to expand on that nonfiction piece for 50,000 words, so I scrapped it and wrote three hundred words about a teen girl being hunted by a coven of witches. I can’t shake witches; they’re in my blood.
No, I don’t want to write another novel about witches, so I chucked that idea out the window and started going over the novels I attempted to complete for NaNoWriMo’s in 2020 and 2019. Low and behold, the two novels I had failed to complete are still vaguely interesting.
I decided to pick up the one from 2019, titled Jack’s Story, and run with it. Now I’m editing about 17k words as I catch up in the story. It’s not that bad, I’m surprised, and for once, it appears I’ve written part of a novel that isn’t tainted by the supernatural…for now.
So that’s where I’m at; I’m going to work on Jack’s Story for this month and see where it takes me.
A brief synopsis of Jack’s Story:
Jack is a twenty-something downbeat guy trying to manage his mental illness when he finds out one of his ex-girlfriends was brutally murdered. As he reconnects with family and friends, his past comes back to haunt him.
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I think finishing this novel is a good challenge for me this month while I juggle the workshop. While I’m working on all of this, I’ve been revamping my Medium blog, prepping to post a selection of nonfiction pieces centered around San Francisco. So far, I have one piece published, and you can check it out here.
Stay tuned!
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