NaNoWriMo 2013

It's October 31st today. For many people it is Hallowe'en, a time for fun & frolics, for the Pagans among us it is the Celtic festival of Samhain and in Mexico it is 'El Dia de los Muertos. For me, and for many others around the world, it is NaNoWriMo Eve, the last day of freedom and relaxation for a whole month. Every spare moment from now on will be taken up with writing our 'grande oeuvre' or, more likely, fighting writer's block. By November 30th many will be basking in the success of having written a 50,000 word novel in 30 days whilst awaiting their winner's T-shirt, others will shrug their shoulders and vow to do better next year, still others will still be suffering from the writer's block that set in on the first day. All, hopefully, will have had fun, if not with their novel at least on the boards, many will have made new friends. Originally I wasn't going to do NaNo this year as I have too much other work on board including journal editing and writing a chapter for the next edition of the Handbook of Counselling Psychology. However I had a dream, literally, and the plot for NaNo was there before me. It is a wartime mystery set on a USAAF airfield somewhere in East Anglia. More of the plot in my next post. Besides writing for NaNo I intend to edit and polish the story for the Ipswich Arts Festival (IpArt) next summer. I just hope I don't get writer's block after the first word.