THE NOVEL PROJECT

My journey to completing a fiction novel

ARMartin

ARMartin
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Alabama, USA
Birthday
April 07
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I'm a former military type person who is now an aspiring novelist. To quote my favorite author, "If I was even moderately successful in anything else in life I likely wouldn't have gotten into writing." Well, that's not exact, but you get the idea. Anyway, this blog is going to catalogue my journey to finishing a novel. It's mainly to help me, but if my journey can help anyone else - well, that'll be great!

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APRIL 10, 2010 3:13AM

364 days left - 74601 words to go

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It's 1:54 AM and snack is chocolate chip cookies.

Well, I've catalogued my progress today and I did OK, 399 words.  I did some character analysis as well.  I recorded two hours of black time during my day.  I also had a four hour nap which has thrown off my sleeping schedule. 

I took particular notice today that after my wife came home at 4:30 PM I did not write a single word.  For nine hours I had 0% productivity on my writing.  Well, if you take out the nap it's five hours. 

Oh, how rude of me, I haven't introduced you to my wife yet.  For the purposes of this blog I'll call her Kat, and she's a rocket scientist.... almost, she'll graduate in December.  She's pretty awesome.  She's very low stress and supportive of my writing, so long as it doesn't get in the way of her time with me and the chores.  I can write before she gets home or after she goes to sleep, but while she's home and awake I realistically get nothing done. 

I don't feel irritated by this, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to - but I do have a nagging feeling letting me know I'm not making any progress while I'm talking with her sometimes.  However, I daily remind myself that she makes a much larger financial contribution to our relationship and that I owe her that time.  I really feel lucky to have her in my life.  If I wasn't so damn sexy I wouldn't have stood a chance.  haha

Anyway, on another note: I have also noticed that writing fiction is at least one thousand times more difficult than writing non-fiction.  That's probably because I've written a lot more non-fiction, but it's still a stone cold fact.  Hopefully, I'll change gears soon and the process will get a little easier.

Good night/early morning and - Get Writing!

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Well, I managed to follow you here as well! It took me a while to understand I had to register first in order to reply to your blog. Well first of all, congratulations on taking this step! I think it is a great idea... plus now you can get your followers fan club interact with you woot. Like me! hah.
It is great that you get so many support from your wife, that's one of the most important things when chasing a dream. Following and believing it, and having people who believe in you!
As far as "writing non-fiction" goes... there's a quotation from Ursula K. LeGuin from her fifth book of Earthsea that really got me. I will look for it and send it to you shortly, probably on an email.
I wish you the best, as always!!

Mila
Great to see you here Mila :D
I hope my ramblings will be somewhat inspiring. Don't forget that I'm a fan of you too. You're so going to be doing the cover art for this book when I get it done.