National Novel Writing Month - 50,000 words or bust
As I prepare for next month’s NaNoWriMo, I find myself suffering from commitment jitters. I am, after all, a short-story writer and have been since, well, forever.
The truth is, I’ve been diligently avoiding the novel form not because I lacked ideas but because I had too many excuses. Well, it won’t be long before my big excuse grows up and leaves home; a thought which forced me to wrestle my fears into a recognizable shape and give them a name.
It came as no great surprise, once I had lured it from my sub-conscious, knocked it down and stared into its blood-red eye, that my personal scary-monster-under-the-bed is a common old thing known as Fear of Failure.
