NanoWriMo – end of week 1

So the first – very short – week of National Novel Writing Month, 2013, is over.

It has already proved to be as chaotic as last year, but at least this time it did not take me quite so long to realise I was never going to finish the novel I had started.

Last year it took me eight days and around 15,00 words before I gave up and started a new one.

This year it took me around eight hours and around 1,500 words.

So either I am getting better at working out what I can and can’t do, or I just got lucky.

Either way – The Interview has been put on (almost terminal) hiatus, and I am now writing a fanfiction called "19 Years Later", where it is the year 2014 and Voldemort has been ruling magical Britain since around the turn of the century (2000, not 1900, obviously).

Possibly the biggest challenge I have now is that I have NO BUGGERING CLUE where the story is going, and am pretty much writing it as I go along.

Which, lets be honest, is not the best way to write stories. But, on the other hand, "Now and Then" was written like that, and that turned out pretty well.

So – who knows – maybe this too will be a work of unadulterated genius and brilliance.

(I know – I should be modest and not blow my own trumpet. But there are so few things I actually do well that when I find one, I blow it good and hard)

(and yes – I just read that back)