Not even 3,000 words in
Last year, I took part in the NaNoWriMo project whose goal is to get people to write 50,000 words or more of original fiction during the month of November. I reached the word count last year, although the result was about 2,500 words of readable fiction lost in a sea of 47,500 words of utter nonsense.
My second attempt this year proved a dismal failure; I barely eked out 2,500 words. There are plenty of excuses I could offer, but my heart just wasn't in it this time around. Maybe next year. I had a grand scheme for a story based on the premise that there are three things, three levers, that determine how people live and interact: money, politics, and religion. The problem is that I never really figured out what kind of story it was supposed to be. Since I never sorted out the overall shape of the story in my head, I couldn't get it down on paper.
I've posted the unfinished start of the story, for whatever reason: The Lever of Faith.
NaNoWriMo is a really amazing project, though--I strongly encourage people to sign up come next October and give it a try. I'm sure I'll be back again.
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