My Second Novel (as yet untitled)...

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It's that time of year again, when day turns to night before you've made it out of work, and the wind begins bringing Arctic cold to our streets, and the best place to be is in front of a warm fire, with a mug of hot chocolate, reading a really good book.
Or, in front of a computer screen, with a sugar rush, writing a ropey, questionable excuse for a book.
Yes, November is National Novel Writing Month, when thousands of wasters like myself decide that although we really don't have the time to write a novel, we're going to do it anyway.

Here's what I've written so far:


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


01.  The List

02.  Waiting for Spring

03.  The Employed Slacker

04.  A Proper Diet

05.  Love Soup

06.  Proper Society

07.  Hope Deferred

08.  Blame it on the Boogie

09.  Sunday Club

10.  Surrender

11.  Acute Identity Crisis

12.  Woddy Park

13.  Something New

14.  The Thief of Sweetness

15.  Eclipse

16.  Staggering

17.  You Are Being Watched

18. Loose End

19.  When Worlds Collide

20.  Love is Easy

21.  The Painkiller

22.  In the Face

23.  For Elise

24.  The Need to Talk

25.  Honesty

26.  Heartburn

27.  The Animal

28.  Show Me

29.  Goodbye, Cruel World



NaNoWriMo www.nanowrimo.org/ is my excuse to take 30 days out of my life to be completely unsociable and throw myself into the challenge of writing 1,667 words of fiction each day.
That's 50,000 words by the end of the month.
I'm going to do this armed only with an idea for an opening scene and a potentially lethal quantity of chocolate, so we'll just have to see if a plot emerges before I develop Type II Diabetes.

Plotlessness and a sugar-based diet are not the only perils I will face. To increase the pressure of the 30-day deadline, I am seeking sponsorship to raise money for a cause dear to my heart: the Spring of Life Care Centre in Beirut, Lebanon. This is a project in a slum called Naba'a, providing education, food, clothing and social time for children who would otherwise be left to roam the streets, or be locked away at home while their parents work 12-hour days just to scrape a living. The Care Centre also hosts a clinic giving free medical consultations and medicines to very poor families who cannot afford access to healthcare. You can learn more about it here: www.kidsalive.org/lebanon/spri…

My sponsorship forms are pinned on the noticeboard at the back of the GateWay Auditorium, or if you're not in South Somerset, but would like to sponsor my attempt at a novel, please get in touch.

Just in case the looming deadline and the weight of trying to raise money for Naba'a aren't enough to bring on writer's block, I will also be posting my raw, unedited prose on the internet.
Each day, whatever I write will appear here - regardless of what state it is in - so you can join me on my ill-advised novel writing adventure.


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