Perhaps I should take inspiration from NaNoWriMo and set my own goals for the month. I won’t ask myself to write an entire new story (even if its not 50,000 words), because I don’t want to let myself abandon the projects I’m already working on.

So, I think my goal will be to write every night, at least for 30 minutes (actual writing, not re-reading or editing) on a story I’m currently working on, with the goal of completing it by the end of the month.

It may not be a whole novel, but it might end up a novella.

It’s almost November, and everywhere, novelists and want to be novelists are preparing for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write an entire novel (50,000 words) in a single month. I will not be participating.

It has nothing to do with needing to write 1667 words per day. I could do that in 2-3 hours. It has to do with my process. Even if I think I know where the story is going when I start, it rarely follows the map. True, NaNoWriMo is about volume, not quality, but the novel still needs internal cohesion.