No, I haven’t done much writing lately. Since early this year, I’ve focused on Twilight revisions. I’m making slow progress with them, but at least it is progress.

November is nearly upon us, though, and that brings National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For me, that means it’s time to write another novel. I synopsized this year’s NaNo novel last March while I was recovering from eye surgery. The novel will be called Threads & Ties. It answers the question, “Can you pick up with the love of your life twenty years after abandoning him with your newborn child?” I’m going to try to get some outlining done before NaNo kicks off this year, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll produce a better integrated first draft. I re-created the soundtrack playlist in RealPlayer tonight. It may not be critical to most writing, but this story has a well-developed soundtrack–kind of a country-rock opera if you will.

As for my other two “in-progress” works, Polar Bear on the Loose requires extensive revision (not surprising for a first novel), and it is waiting for me to learn more about the craft. If These Walls Could Talk is on hiatus at 34k. It started on a whim and rolled along quite well, but I don’t know what I want to do with it, if anything, so it’s waiting patiently for me to wander back to it.

Due to work commitments and Thanksgiving (seeing family for the first time in several years), I’ll have fewer than 30 days to work NaNo. I’ve calculated I need to average 2200 words per day to meet the 50k threshold. I met that easily last year, but I was “in shape” after writing regularly for the last half of the year. This year, I’m curious to see if I can hit the ground running with little regular writing preparation.