November is rapidly approaching.  Yes, I’ll be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) again this year.  I’ll be doing Fooling Mother Nature as a satire.  I don’t think I’ve attempted satire before, and I think this story lends itself to it.  As usual, I’ll be doing it by the seat of the pants.  What comes, comes, and it will probably be pretty ugly.  But sometimes, there are beautiful words that get strung together, and that’s always fun.

Lately, though, I haven’t done a great job of stringing words together.  In fact, to use some basketball terms, my words seem to be bricking, air-balling, and generally just clanking off the rim.  I think after NaNo, I need to shift my focus to shorter works — flash fiction, short stories, or, even, targeted writing exercises.  I feel as is story-telling and craft need some honing.  I think that’s best done in a more limited environment than the novel.  I can begin and end something, polish it, and carve the words to fit what I want to say in a more complete start to finish mode.

I’d do my usual NaNo Day to Day update here for November.  After that, I’ll be shifting focus — probably for the next year or so to the effort mentioned above.  December will be a good time to put together my plan for that.  Until then, I will be practicing waxing satirical.

Happy November.