A conversation with myself on writing.

Oh, hello there. What? Oh, right, well what had happened was...I mean, I've been a little entangled in the new job--what? I know, I know, yeah I had some time, but not a lot and it made more sense to--Yes, this is important to me. No, I don't want it to look like I don't care. I do care. I care a lot actually. I did do some writing, there was that---yes, it counts, I mean it was fiction. Some people call it flash fiction. How many words? I don't know, 100, 150 maybe. Since when is it about the word count? I have a lot of respect for deadline, just ask my co-workers. That deadline? I'm going to do my best to make it, I have a full month, and two weeks of vacation! Well, that's not very nice. I think I can do it. have a little faith in me. I swear, I'm doing my best. I'm doing mostly my best. I could do better.

National Blog Post Something or other.

I think I will make an attempt at blogging every day in the month of November. I will absolutely NOT make an attempt to write a novel this month. The more I think about it, the more it makes my head hurt. I care about my novel-in-progress. I want to spend time with it, crafting each sentence like it's the most important one in the book. What would I gain by trying to speed through it? I spent much of my grad school years speeding through story drafts, and yes, I had some good results, but mostly I just ended up revising for months and months....Although I guess, every 1st draft I write is pretty quick...I'm much better in the revising stage...but still....no novel in a month for me folks. But blogs posts, that I can try to do.