Hello November

Thoughts

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.

Happy New Year 2018

Writing

It’s a new year and every day is a new opportunity to try something new. I was perusing reddit and came across this post. Signing up for the Bradbury Challenge just felt like something different enough to make this year different from the last.

The plan is to write a short story every week for a year. It’s already the end of week 2, and it’s not perfect but I’ve attempted 2 stories now. Haven’t finished one yet, but I think as long as I attempt and start something, it’s better than nothing.

All future stories I’ll be adding here. I’ll probably continue to add more to past stories as I find the time to finish them.

In progress…

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Things I am working on but not sure if I’ll ever finish.

  • Cyberpunk novel – I’m having a lot of fun with this one but now I’m stuck. I should plot out the sequence of events before I start writing but this started out of NaNoWriMo.
  • Fantasy novel – I wrote the most for this one, but I’m having the same problem as the previous story.
  • Sketches as always, I just need to post some shots
  • Trying to plan my halloween costume. This is the best holiday of the year and I always plan in advance.