Counting Down

The local kickoff party was this evening. It's like meeting summer campers after a year apart. Trading stories, finding up what's new with whom, hazing the hatchlings... Great fun.

I was grumbling with one of the folks about not having a prepared plan of action for this year's NaNo book. But I never do. I guess the real issue is that I'm torn between writing 50k of stuff to get it done, or writing something that's readable and salable. I'm also torn between writing my "usual" fare, and writing something outside my comfort zone.

Some folks are prewriting for months before NaNo. I've tried doing that (last year's disaster and almost failure was an example of that). But there's no small amount of stress in trying to write a novel on a wing and a prayer. Grrr...

There's only one thing to do: get a good idea together, leave my comfort zone, and try and sell the resulting book anyway.

Hmmm... that sounded almost too easy.