Well, Dear Reader, I’ve started on The Next Novel for NanoWriMo. Not on Friday (1 November) when I theoretically should have done, because we were still entertaining the grandchildren. I started writing on my iPad on the train to Stratford (London) yesterday morning, and continued on the way back, for a longer stretch, helpfully facilitated by Greater Anglia Railways, by way of a late train which in turn caused me to miss my connection and to need to ask my husband to meet me. By the time I had arrived home yesterday, I had achieved 1300 words, and after adding more at home later in the evening I reached 2000. I should have been on 4000.
Writing late at night, or indeed using the computer at all, always disrupts my sleep. Nano be blowed, I should’ve put my computer away, because I failed to sleep until 3am last night and by mid-afternoon today, after going to church and doing domestic chores, I was on my hands and knees with exhaustion. I’m afraid to say that so far today (9.30pm) I’ve added only a few words, DR. I have added a few because I’ve done the thing you’re not supposed to do in Nano, that is, I’ve gone back on what I wrote yesterday and edited. I’ve been editing my previous Nano for 3 years and I’ve no intention – this time – of producing a draft which requires so much work, even if I don’t reach my 50,000 deadline by 30 November.
The Next Novel is about football by the way, about people supporting football, not playing it, women supporting it in particular. I think it’s an interesting scenario and I hope I can make it work.
So onwards and upwards, towards the next thousand words. I’m invigilating exams throughout the coming week.
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