Fifteen hundred words a day apparently is a problem.

Today is November 1^st.

And that can mean only one thing: the start of National Novel Writing Month [1].

And like many [2] years [3] gone [4] past [5] I will yet again attempt to write a novel.

Last year (as well as years before) I really didn't have a solid idea going into the month on what to write, so I never got very far. Part of that problem is that I have a hard time writing fiction. While I don't lack for ideas, I do however, lack the discipline to see these ideas through.

I said as much to Spring [6], and she suggested an idea I can get behind: to write a non-fiction book about a fictitious subject.

It's certainly a better idea than writing 50,000 fictitious words [7].

We'll see how far I get this year.

[1] http://www.nanowrimo.org/

[2] /boston/2005/11/01.3

[3] /boston/2004/11/01.1

[4] /boston/2003/11/01.1

[5] /boston/2002/11/01.1

[6] http://www.springdew.com/

[7] /boston/2004/11/01.1

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