Process - When Failure Is Success

I did not make the 50,000 mark. Much as I would love to say that the absence of blogging during the latter part of the month was due to writing furiously, that is only partly true.

Fortunately, I have not abandoned the novel. I figure this blog will help me stay on that path. I like where the novel is going. I like that I have written somehwere in the neighborhood of 22,000 words and that the less-than-50k output is the result of shifting priorities (November is a tough month for me all the way around - maybe I'll turn March into my own personal NaNo month) more than it is a matter of sluggish writing pace. It turns out, I can actually write quite a lot of material that (to my biased eye anyway) is reasonably readable, even in raw form. Imagine what I could do with an editor!

Anyway, some of the good news is that it is starting to seem like I finally have an entry point into this story, making it far more likely you'll start seeing some posts that start with "Novel - " instead of "Process - ". I still need to do some more organization and background work but that has progressed rather smoothly in parallel with the writing so far, so I see no reason I shouldn't continue in that vein.

Stay tuned; there will be more...