I will in November be continuing a novel I’ve been working on for an embarrassingly long time. November is National Novel Writing Month. But don’t let the name fool you. I think anyone, anywhere can participate, and it might be just the excuse you can pull out of your hat in order to block off the time you need. The goal of NaNo is to write 50,000 words in 30 days (or approximately 1600 words a day). In other words get ‘er done! You can always go back and edit later. Too often our inner critics stand in the way of allowing us to complete the stories our characters are desperate to have told.

The other advantage? You’ll have other people in the chaos with you for support. If you decided to do it drop me an e-mail or a comment and I’ll direct you to some of the author groups that are forming up in anticipation of it.