New Novel Begun

The National Novel Writing Month has begun. I started this morning with my new novel, temporarily titled, Plato's Perspective. It's a mainstream novel that has a bit of a futuristic setting to it, although it is not really science fiction but a political novel that has to do with Plato's Republic and his attempt to integrate education with the concept of the myth of metals (each person falls into one of 3 metal classes). My first jaunt into writing it has resulted in 1875 words. The goal is 50,000 words (about 200 pages), so let's see how this all works out.

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National Novel Writing Month

One of the projects I'm planning to participate in during November is something I've always wanted to do. It's called National Novel Writing Month. It takes place from November 1st until the end of the month, and the goal is to write a 50,000 novel in that time period. This should be an interesting experiment for me. It's not the first time I've written a novel quickly. Deadly Deceptions, a mystery/suspense novel that takes place amongst US counterintelligence agents in South Korea, was written during a two week leave I took once while in Korea. But not every novel has been that quick, judging from my last one, The Ameriad, which took me over 5 years.

So, I'm thinking about which novel I'd like to write next. I'm allowed to outline it before writing it, so I might get on that soon. I was going to be rewriting The Armageddon Project, renamed To Touch the Unicorn, renamed to 72 Hours in August, but it is really a rewrite, and that doesn't seem ethical in a contest that is supposed to be "new" work. So I'll be thinking about my next NEW project.

As for other things, starting to become comfortable in my new job in Michigan. Having trouble finding an apartment because of my old bad credit (plus the last 4 or so months of being destitute and not having a job), but have to keep believing things will work out for the better.

That's all for now.

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