Novel Idea

I started writing my story finally. I'm not really sure how good it is, I struggle a lot with pacing. I can tell you that I want something to happen further down the line and I want events to slowly unravel but I'm just not that good at filling out a story with things that slow down said unravelling.

I think the important thing at the moment is that I’m actually writing a narrative and enjoying it. I’ve written three thousand five hundred words in the last two days which doesn’t include an introduction I wrote a while back. Apparently to be a writer you need to write two hundred and fifty words a day so I've just written two weeks worth of material right there. On a less self-congratulatory note I’m attempting my own personal Nanowrimo. I'm a bit late for the real thing, but there's nothing to stop me from trying to write fifty thousand words over one month. That's about one thousand five hundred words a day which puts me slightly ahead of schedule. Although this weekend is really going to set me back.

Every now and then I'll probably share a few of my favourite lines with you:

Danny was sitting at the kitchen table alternating between eating weetbix and smoking a cigarette. He was wearing a filthy singlet which could only be described as formerly white and currently disgusting.

Hope you enjoy it and hopefully I'll be able to keep up some momentum. I expect this novel to be longer than fifty thousand words but I think that's definitely a good target to aim for right now.