Taking a Write-Off

For a Freelance Writer, It's Hard to Find Time to Write Stuff  You're Not Being Paid to Write

JUST TWO posts in the last three weeks may leave you with the impression that I've been rather too busy with paying jobs to find my way to write for my nonpaying gigs. That would be a correct impression. And so my ambitious drive to write a 50,000-word novel in one month will have to remain that for a while -- an ambition. No one's paying me to play Ian McEwan, so until I can figure out how to shoehorn that kind of stuff into an already packed schedule, fiction returns to the back burner.

But not permanently. I learned a lot in the two weeks or so I spent trying to crank out 1,666 and two-thirds words per day. I'd like to share some of that here in the near future, but the biggest takeaways are that (a) it's really hard work, and (b) it's a hell of a lot of fun. Too much fun to give up on. More later. S|C

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[TheBrawn]

NaNoWriMo for you too?