Wednesday, January 01, 2003

I haven't mentioned it before but, I've had a plan to start the year off by writing one novel a day. I got the idea from that novel in one month contest. I feel that it's possible to write one novel a day. I think I'll try and make this a performance and write one novel a day for a whole year. That makes... three hundred and something novels for 2003. However many days there are in 2003. Is it a leap year? I need to find out before I get started just so I have a nice clean goal.

I need to get started on the first novel soon cause it's getting late in the day. I haven't got much time left in this day. I might have to write two novels tomorrow just to catch up. I could make this a novelette, but not a short story. I have to be clear about that. If only I hadn't slept late today. I also wasted time trying to figure what kind of novel to write. Non-fiction is what I'm thinking of right now. I better get going I have less that three hours before day two of my one novel a day begins. I guess if I wrote one page a minute that be sixty pages an hour times whatever many hours I have left today as day one. Maybe I could write all night and just make sure I have two complete novels by tomorrow night before midnight. I'm thinking both could be non-fiction and maybe I should make it about something I know so I don't have to keep getting up and researching a subject. Maybe I could write about me like I'm doing now, but make it more exciting, not lie about it cause that wouldn't be non-fiction that would be something else.

Boy, my head is already beginning to hurt. I feel like I really should start this thing today, because it's the start of the new year, right? But then, a lot of stores were closed today and the mail didn't get delivered so they all had a day off, right? I mean, I could start tomorrow because today was a holiday, right? You just don't celebrate a baby's birthday on the day it's born, right? This being "day one". So what's so bad about putting this novel a day thing off until tomorrow or when there's not a good show on TV?