The last few months have been a nice, soupy mix of outlining, working on side projects, procrastinating, and moving from one Chicago neighborhood to another, but the time has come at last. This morning I finally sat down and started writing Hubris.
It’s funny just how mundane the act of writing is once you get down to doing it. After all that anticipation, it wasn’t particularly strenuous or exciting to type out the first 700 or so words. There will certainly be emotional moments, if my track record is any indication, but for the most part, it’s just one word after another, and the steady clicking of laptop keys.
It’s also funny how much I’m still wedded to my word count; that’s the Nanowrimo mentality, one that I’ll probably always have. I’m expecting the first draft of Hubris [...]