Novel November 2026
The first day of NaNoWriMo Novel November and I’ve barely managed 350 words. I woke up not feeling the best, and slowly worsened throughout the day. But I’ve been mega dosing on the vitamin C and AirBorn tablets, along with whatever else the wife gave me, so I’m starting to feel better. A good night’s sleep should help.
My story that I’m working on is one I’ve had bouncing around in my skull since I wrote the short story version of it waaaaay back in 200…5? Probably at least 20 years ago, if not longer. I feel like it could be a good novel, but when I start thinking of how to expand it, I just hit a wall.
So I thought I’d give this a go with Novel November and see if I can’t bring more of it to light. I’m only keeping some of the ideas of the story, and the first paragraph itself. The rest is “along the lines of…”. As an example, in the short story, my protagonist wakes up in a cell, and has a conversation with a nurse. In my current draft, he wakes up in a hospital, and talks to a nurse, but the conversation is completely different.
I also realized when re-reading the short story that I was trying to be too clever. So all of that “look at how clever I am” text is in the trash. I’m not clever. I just have a story I want to tell, so I’m going to write it as succinctly and honest as I can.
Though at 350 words a day, I’ll fall far short of the 50K goal. I’ll have to do better tomorrow. For now, bed.
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Just realized I’m supposed to go see “You Can See Everything” with a friend tomorrow. Might have to squeeze in some writing at lunch, or risk falling way behind.