Some of you are probably getting ready to start NaNoWrMo next month. I’ve done a mini-version of that this month as I took part in Novel Track on the ACFW site. I set a modest goal of 10,000 words and have already met it. I’ll probably reach 15,000 words by the end of the month.

This goal-setting with accountability method works well for me. Otherwise I just let the days slide by and don’t work much on the next places my character and plot are going. That’s because I’m out of my comfort zone–flying by the seat of my pants in fiction.

Luckily I’ve found that there is a whole world of seat of the pantsers out there in the writing world. I know that the editing process will require that I just about start over as I learn more about fiction writing, but at least I have my main character going places and doing things. This is hard work for me and I hate to admit it, but I’m a little bit lazy in these retirement years.

So, whatever works. For now I’m cranking out some work and maybe one day it will all be stitched together into a nice, little book. And then, of course, they’ll ask where my sequel is. Okay, just shoot me now.