National Novel Writing Month is here. Some folks look forward to the holidays or to the gifts that come with those holidays, but the end of the year I look forward to the most is that crazy literary challenge in November.

When I first started taking on the challenge, I would fly by the seat of my pants. A “pantser” as people in the crowd call it. But I do feel like with the practice of trying it out year after year that I’m transitioning to more of a planner.

Even though the challenge focuses on the quantity, not quality, it’s been difficult to get to the end of a story. How do I get my character from A to B when I don’t really know what B is supposed to be? Well, this time around I wrote up A to G to P. Which is way more planning I’ve done ahead of time than in the past. And yet I still find myself in the struggle 😅. Granted other life things have come up in the first few days. So, hopefully, week 2 will even it out.