It’s National Novel Writing month.

There’s an official site for it and everything.  The idea is that between the dates of the 1^st and 30^th of November, you write a 50,000 word (or more) novel.

I considered signing up, but one of the rules is that you can’t have started your Novel before November.  I did start typing before then, so I’d either have to start again (which seems a little silly) or write another novel at the same time as this one.  That would be possible; but I also have a little Christmas project on the go, (coming to you in December!) and I don’t want to start getting spread too thinly.

So I’m setting myself my own challenge; to finish the first draft of my novel by the end of November.

Will I make it?  Only time will tell.  But I’m going to try to be honest about my progress, so here’s my first update:  currently I’m sitting at 15,518 words.  Not that far in; but I do have a note book full of story notes, characters, places and plots, which took a good while to put together.

So it’s a race, and winter is coming…