November is the month of the challenge, the writing challenge… a challenge with no prizes apart from the satisfaction of completing it, the challenge to write 50,000 words of a new novel between the 1st and 30th of November.
I have taken part over the last two years, and succeeded… this year, exactly a week ago I started the national Novel Writing Month without a single proper thought in my head. I have made slow progress, and have actually passed 10,000 words, so I’m sort of on target. The trouble is I can’t properly decide or get into what I am doing, and at the moment have three separate things which i am writing (plus the unfinished novel I’ve been working on for the last few months)
- The stalker stalked – a completely innocent and unaware man is stalked by a middle-aged member of a writing group… or are there two women in the group stalking him? 1996 words
- A woman who has distanced herself from her family for many years returns on the death of her beloved step-father… accidents seem to happen to her, or are they accidents? 3128 words
- The further adventures of genealogist Thomas Radwinter, this time investigating his wife’s family history, and also the murder of a school girl seventy years ago… 5464 words
My word speed has improved, and day by day I am writing more than the day before, but will I reach my target? Will I somehow get into my swing and get to the magic 50,000 with just one of these stories?
Lois Elsden 
yes 😉
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