The Japan Writers Conference inspired me to sign up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The NaNoWriMo challenge is to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days, starting November 1. I actually started the novel a little bit early on October 19 and had 20,000 words by the end of the month, which is fine, because another 50,000 words will not complete it. The working title is Vision More Glorious, and it’s about a psychiatric patient who is given an experimental medication. As I wrote in the synopsis of the novel for NaNoWriMo, “When life gleams all too transcendent—outstripping even your most vivid imagination—how could things possibly end well?”
The writing these last two weeks has been challenging, but a lot of fun at the same time. It is my first “new story” writing since I started work on the big edit of Under Shōko’s Bed back in August. It feels good to be writing again, not just editing. I am trying, though, to edit each day as well, so I am also working on Neyuki. Add all of that to a full-time job and it has me wishing that days were a few hours longer. How about a nice, round number like thirty?