NaNoWriMo

This will be my third time to participate. Project title: FATHER IN THE ATTIC. My name on there is Arlo Clyde 

Roald Dahl

Dahl wrote wonderfully for young readers. I have endured jealousy pangs a few times, coming across some of the passages. 'Why didn't I think of that before he did?' So, on the side, as I work on my novel, I am setting the groundwork for a novel for children. Not to imitate Dahl, or have the temerity to think of it as a competition, but definitely inspired by his spirit. I love the way that he did not write down to the youngsters and was not afraid to broach certain subjects. His humor can infect me again and again, long after I have finished reading.  

On to Chapter Six

Chapter five took a bit longer than the first four combined. Not due to waning enthusiasm, but just trouble with expressing myself. The next part is where the range war begins in earnest and is likely to be easier to write. That last chapter was transitional. It refocuses, winding up to a final showdown.

I Bought a USB Drive

to save my writing in. Somehow when learning to use it, I deleted two pages of my novel - Current working title, Dan Avers' Gamble. But the rewrite proved much superior. I perhaps should do it more often.

Still plugging

Some parts of my book are tougher to write than others. But I make at least a little progress every day. At the same time I take little breaks by doing smaller projects, such as rewriting The Raven, to make it fit in today's climate of online roguery.

Time in a Can

Croce's song of Time in a bottle has me wondering about doing a story in which a man undertakes to put time in a can, for mass production. Mmmm maybe.

Mid Point

I am at the exact center of my western novel. Still in search of a title. It's educational just to put such a book together. All the historical facts I never knew or used in my writing. Even the seemingly trivial can play a vital part. I came in writing about horses, not knowing something as elemental as the difference between cantering, trotting and galloping. Or the introduction of Levis. I already know there were not so many actual gunfighters, of the ilk of Wild Bill Hickok, but I had to bend the truth here and include some. Anyway, it's a fun project and not really so much work because of it.   

Disruptions to my routine

But am making a little progress daily.