NaNoWriMo Eve

31 October 2006

Tomorrow it begins! Tomorrow morning I’m actually going to drag my sorry bottom out of bed and get to work on National Novel Writing Month. I have my plot all drawn out and I hope enough particulars to be able to complete the 50,000 word novel. I will be competing this month with my friend Ken Jennings, father of the Ken Jennings of Jeopardy. It will be really cool I just hope my idea is good enough to develop into a novel. I feel that it is, but I’ve only made it 34,000 with a previous project.

But, fortunately, my wife has offered to take the kids with her over to her friend’s house tomorrow. I am going to take full advantage of the days off I have again before my next contract or, finally, full-time employment. But, as my friend Lee says, most full-time writers go through many day jobs before they are able to get into full-time writing. I’m going to try and follow David Morrell’s advice and have three years worth of savings before I quit my day job.