It is Better to Marry than to Burn...

This is the novel I'm writing for this year's NaNoWriMo www.nanowrimo.org
You can read the whole thing by using the numbered NaNo links below to navigate.

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I have since written my second novel, which you can read here:  cinnamonjames.deviantart.com/j…

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Every day that I manage to write something, I will post it on dA unedited, and link to it in this journal.

Underneath the chapter list is a reprint of my last journal, to explain what I was thinking 2 days before I embarked on this foolishness.

Chapters

//  I've taken my novels offline with the intention of doing something useful with them. Watch this space...


NaNo 01

1 - Surprise!

2 - Never A Saint

3 - Abbot Amberly and Prior Warning

NaNo 02

4 - Brother Calvin vs. The World

NaNo 03

5 - Aiden Gets Started

6 - The Empty Treasury

7 - Aiden On The Market

NaNo 04

8 - Secret Admirers Are All Prologue

NaNo 05

9 - The Unpresentable Part

10 - The Phone Rang

11 - Now You See Him...

NaNo 06

12 - Ella

13 - There She Was

NaNo 07

14 - Prayer of the Desperate

15 - Prayer of the Devious

16 - Another Desperate Prayer

17 - The Morning After

18 - Calling in Sick

19 - Questionable Blessing

NaNo 08

20 - Grace for Granted

21 - Everyone Has Something to Hide

22 - No-one is Listening

NaNo 09

23 - Waiting for Ella

24 - Rainy Day Reminiscing

NaNo 10

25 - That Sunday Morning

NaNo 11

26 - A Little Lonely

NaNo 12

27 - Simply Aiden

28 - Coming Clean

29 - Discipline and Rehabilitation

NaNo 13

30 - Winging It

NaNo 14

31 - Back to Work

32 - Look Where You're Going

33 - The Same Old Ground

34 - Please Bow Out Gracefully

35 - Finders Keepers

36 - Let the Happy Out

37 - Cute Should Wear a Dress

NaNo 15

38 - Divine Intervention

39 - Counting Regrets

40 - Best Friends Forever

41 - Love Never Fails

NaNo 16

        42 - Sleeping Cat Digression

43 - Brother Calvin vs. The Third Degree

44 - Reading Isaac's Mind

NaNo 17

45 - A Little Further

NaNo 18

46 - The Broken Wall

NaNo 19

47 - Beyond Redemption

NaNo 20

48 - The Other Truth

49 - The 'S' Word

NaNo 21

50 - Sleeping Over

NaNo 22

51 - Poppycock and Tomfoolery

52 - A Kiss Goodbye

NaNo 23

53 - Overcoming

54 - It is Better to Marry Than to Burn

NaNo 24

55 - Honesty

56 - A Good Friend

57 - No Way, Hosea

NaNo 25

58 - God Like Dog

59 - Religious Nuts

60 - Genesis Chapter One (the Unrestrained Paraphrase)

NaNo 26

61 - Secrets

62 - Surprise! (Reprise)

63 - Epilogue

Like most people, I am far too busy to write a novel.  Not only do I lack the time, I'm also pretty well convinced I lack the talent to sustain a reader's interest for more than a page or so (although several people have read The Auspicious Day and lbl to the end, which should give me some confidence).

Unlike most people, I am going to write a novel.  In 30 days.  Yes, November is National Novel Writing Month, and I've got the NaNoWriMo bug.  So starting Thursday I'm going to be reckless with my sanity and attempt to meet the NaNoWriMo target or 50,000 words in 30 days (put your calculators away: that's 1,667 words per day).

Yes, I am going to do this (imagine me saying that in the same sighing voice I use to pretend I'm fine).  Despite working 40+ hours a week, and being completely unwilling to sacrifice church, Reality, or The New Root's first headline gig on the 14th November (in Bristol), I will have finished my first novel by the time December comes.

What's more, every night I'm going to post what I've written that day so that anyone who is interested can follow my descent into madness as the plot-holes swallow my characters before they can reach their prime, and the dialogue becomes increasingly absurd and contrived.

It's going to be wonderful and terrible all at the same time.  Look forward to it.