Since I've finished the write up of JF, I have had a lot of extra time, most of which I spend watching TV. As much as I love TV, and we all know I do, I feel it a waste of time to spend days (if I count up all the hours I spend watching TV in a week, it can work out to be something like a day and a half) watching television. I know I could be outside with the fresh air and birdies, but if you don't live in central Alberta, then you don't know it is cold and snowy with interludes of warm snaps that end up melting the snow but freezing it all back overnight.
I have decided to write.
No, not my next novel, for I wish to plan that one, plan it until I have nothing left. I want it to be better because it is closer to my actual life than JF, though I love JF just the same. I'm going to do a condensed version of National Novel Writing Month. From today until March 22 (the day before spring break) I will do my best to write, as they say, quantity rather than quality. But moreover, I hope to write something coherent, even if dull or melodramatic or fantastical.
Who knows what will happen? JF started out as a test novel and now it is the first novel length story I've ever written, even if it can only be counted as a Sweet Valley High length novel. I'm so happy!
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