Why I Quit NaNoWriMo and Started Again

This summer I was on a roll, finally piecing together a novel I'd been writing off and on for over a decade.  Editing was going well, organizing was going well, even writing things I'd put off for years was going well.  And then I hit a wall.  No matter how badly I wanted to work on my novel, it was as if my brain had switched itself off for the time being.

After copious amounts of complaining online to my friends, one suggested I start a "throw away" story or poem in the hopes that my writer's block would go chew on that and I could get back to the srs bsns of my novel.  I was hoping to have a full draft done by my-October.  Not having written much of anything in the way of poetry since high school, I pulled out one of my spare composition books and started working on a random story.

In about a month and a half I had over 95 handwritten pages of a story I had never really thought of writing.  I was on a roll again.  It irked me to some degree that the story I was working on wasn't the one I'd intended but it was also cathartic to write.  The problem was, National Novel Writing Month was rapidly approaching and I needed to set aside the story I was burning through to plan another story...

Hello again, blogging

I have never been a successful blogger. Never.

I can post pages worth of stuff on Twitter and facebook, but blog? Too hard. Except I'm finding that facebook and Twitter aren't wordy enough for me.

So here's my new blog.