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My name is Vikram, I’ll be your host this evening.

Vikram introduced himself to me this morning as I prepared to leave for work, and we agreed that he is going into the novel that’s currently under construction. This will of course totally change everything – character relationships, tone and even plot somewhat, although the book’s pretty much plotted out by now. Sometimes I wonder where ideas and images come from, but in this case it’s fairly clear.

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Ok. 55k. I’m still hoping to reach 75k before the end of the month, so there will still be a book there after I cut out the crappy parts (at worst, I will end up with a nice haiku…), but I’m taking a break from this. I’ll let it sit until the weekend or next week, try to clear my head, waste my time with this time waster that I found here, let the MSS cool off, then read what I have so far and see what makes sense and what doesn’t. Let a couple people comment on it. Then start re-writing – I’m thinking characters need to be developed more, etc.

Xkot reveals another case of convergent evolution.

Bah, this writing gig is easy.

You learn things about yourself when you write a novel. Like, I have a fire hangup, and the ability to spin bullshit out of thin air, but being coherent is not a strong point.

WOET! as Dutch-speakers say.

For those of you from the future, this is a NaNoWriMo-related post.