National Novel Writing Month 2019
I wrote my first novel! Well, really it’s in progress and not complete, but I did write fiction every day in November and have at least the bones down on my first novel. The plot-line and characters in their current form are already serving as a libretto for a ballet that I’m choreographing, and I also will go back and edit and add on to the story to flesh it out as a standalone work once I’ve had a break to get perspective on it. I took on the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge in order to fuel my daily writing habit and to stretch myself creatively in a new way. It worked splendidly! With all I had going on last month, I committed to working on my book for one hour per day, every day, and not to the full official word count of at least 50,000 words. Maybe next year… It was thrilling to go around imagining characters and settings, key scenes, and dialogue. Getting inside the heads of different people and their relationships, what’s important to them an...