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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 [...]

Note: This is the transcribed introduction to the original post on Quinn Writes a Novel, which has gone from a hidden stand-alone journal to a tagged series on this blog.

Dear Internet,

As I write this, it’s April of 2009, I’m 26 years old and I’m trying to start a career as a novelist. By the time you – whoever you are – read this, I hope to have at least one book in print, or whatever has succeeded print in your crazy space-age future. This blog (online journal, really, but no one cares about that distinction anymore) will be a running account of how I got from here to there. Or how I failed spectacularly. The Internet has been an invaluable resource for me in my quest thus far to be an actual author-type-person, so out of philanthropy [...]