Many of you have asked me how my fiction writing is going, particularly because I made it public I was participating in National Novel Writing Month this past November.

Let’s just say I was very naive about the process.

The goal is to write 50,000 words in one month.

I accomplished that…gold star for me!

But did you know that’s not a full book? It’s only about 100 pages. For me, it is maybe a quarter of my book.

I understand, now, the point is to get you in the habit of writing every day and to move you closer toward having a book…eventually.

But I really thought I’d have a book that needed a good edit and a couple of revisions by the end of November. Then I could go get an agent and shop it around. (more…)