NaNoWriMo Disaster!

So, like most good participants, I have spent the last seven days writing the story I described before (Knightfall).

Unfortunately, I got very bored of it very, very quickly, and it was becoming more like work than fun to write it.

Which would be okay if I was a professional author, but since I am not, I don’t want to spend my free time away from my actual job doing anything that seems like work (unless there is a very good reason – I have been packing up a lot of my stuff in recent times because I am planning to move house soon, and so while that does feel like work, it is for a good reason!).

So last night I took the potentially ludicrous decision to abandon Knightfall (after seven days I had managed about 16,000 words) and swap to a brand new story based around The Ministry of Magic and the 10 month re-election campaigns of Harry Potter and Luna Potter (nee Lovegood).

So I started that from scratch (although I have made previous attempts to write it, none of them are anything like what I am writing now) and by the end of the evening I was up to 4,500 words (more or less).

Which means, on the whole, I still think I can meet the deadline, even though I have three weeks, rather than four. Plus it makes it more of a challenge, which is always fun.