Better Write than Never

I had all kinds of excuses, last month, for not even thinking about doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this year, which is partly why I have been quiet for a while.  I took on a new part time job, and I have been babysitting my favorite four year old. Enough, already. But then, due to a series of quasi-connected events, it became obvious to me that there is a novel struggling to get out, and I have to write it, starting now! The premise of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word first draft of a novel during the month of November, which works out to roughly 1,660 words per day. I have written about the experience in previous blog posts, and what happened in my case, that the rushing through to get my count in, ended in a mess I didn't want to turn in to a second draft. So, the whole thing hid out under my bed for two years, until I started this blog, and made an unsuccessful attempt to revise it. Never one to be brought down for too long, the "nano"  partic...