Today is Hallowe’en. Already. It seems like we just celebrated Christmas and the Fourth of July.
Hallowe’en is just another day in our house. I take more notice of falling leaves and temperatures than I do of decorations or the other trappings of the holiday.
But this year, there’s another reason to take note of the day. Tomorrow is the beginning of National Novel Writing Month.
Gulp!
Since first deciding to participate in NaNoWriMo 2009, I’ve been gathering and developing ideas. I currently have fourteen possibles, but no clear idea what I’ll be working on. I’ve been “snowflaking” two of them and one of those has been developing like a blizzard. Fast and furious!
In spite of the planning, developing, research, character identification, chapter outlines and notations on plot, scenes and general material, I haven’t yet made up my which story to write. To be frank, that ‘fast and furious’ idea i mention in the previous paragraph is the most scary one, so that’s probably the one, but I haven’t yet made that decision.
I’m trying not to let that bother me. I know how easy it is to wake up of a morning with a new idea that’s so hot, I have to sit down and begin writing immediately. In those cases, it’s very easy to reel off ten, fifteen or even twenty thousand words in a week or so.
I’m trying to look forward to something like that happening in November.
Whatever happens to be the case, whether the perfect idea leaps into my awareness at the last moment or one of the existing ideas suddenly catch fire, I trust something will happen.
I’ve done everything else I can do as far as clearing my calendar. Portraits are in drying phases. Other writing obligations are well under way and should be obtainable with little fuss. My family and church knows what’s going on and they’re all praying for this project and for me. And, no doubt, for Neal, too!
Something will happen.
I just don’t happen to know, right now, what that something will be!
October 31.