fiction

I've been trying to get back to writing fiction for a long, long time now. In fact, I've spent more time trying than I did actively writing fiction from 2000-2003. It's not that there's a dearth of ideas or that I have suddenly lost the ability to string two sentences together, quite the opposite. In the past six years there have been short stories that turned into long stories, long stories that didn't go anywhere; several aborted novels, even more never begun; scripts and outlines and treatments and everything in between, but not a thing among them has been finished.

Well, today that changed. If only in a small way.

I have never really finished anything I've started on that thing. I've never taken part in the community aspect. I've never really written anything I'd consider stellar (except for my first one, and that was more through sheer momentum of having reached the 30K mark on a story for the first time rather than anything inherent to the event).

Nanowrimo is a good motivational tool to set youself the goal of writing 50K in a month, but it isn't going to write those 50K words for you, if you know what I mean. I think I may do another 'meta-nano' like I did (or attempted to do) last year.