Well, it’s November, and as usually, I’m undergoing the massive caffeine intake otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. Another few days and I should be twitching nicely.

Despite the fact that it sometimes feels like torture, I actually enjoy this novelling in a month thing. I can fiddle around for days over a sentence, so its one way of actually getting the plot out there, and I can go back and do (a lot of) fine tuning later. It worked well with last year’s effort, but this year’s has a much more complex plot and main character, so it’s slightly slower going. Even about 5,000 words in, I’m not entirely sure that things are happening in the right order, but I don’t have time to fix it. That’s what December’s for.

So here I am, holed up in my study, typing away whilst the rest of the family rattles around me. A mere 45,000 words left to go!