bleckblog: musings of a community college english teacher

Beginning tomorrow, I'm going to try to crank out 50,000 words of a novel in the course of the month. If I do this, I'll be a "winner" in the National Novel Writing Month competition. I'm considering this something of a 30 day, 50,000 word free/forced writing session, the same sort of thing I have my students do at the beginning of class each day, based on the advice of Peter Elbow. I've been thinking about what sort of story I'll be working on, how I'll frame it, what point-of-view I'll take a shot at, all the sorts of things a novelist needs to consider. If you give it a try, let me know how it goes. I think I'll provide a collection of links, but I've noticed traffic is down a bit of late, since I've stopped writing about Larry Craig. (I wonder if anyone will be dressing up at the disgraced senator tonight for trick or treating?) I hope you'll read and feel free to give me any feedback you want. My hope is that at the end of the month I'll have something worth revising.