> The person who started Writing Month (Chris Baty) has a book out this year, called "No Plot? No Problem!". I have it and it's awesome. I recommend reading it if you're thinking of writing at all, let alone joining in on this insane venture. It's funny and encouraging.
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I went to Borders to see whether they had that book in stock, but they didn't. Is there any chance you'd loan it to me for a couple of days? Also, are you letting people read the novel you got partway through last year, or is it so horrible that you can't bear the thought? :-)

I'm considering returning to the plot of a short story I wrote for a college class, which was dreadful (the story, not the class) but had the kernel of a decent yarn inside it. But I doubt my ability to actually tell such a story. It borrows some character types and themes from King Lear but is set in a NYC ghetto. Pretty far outside my range of experience.

I don't think there's any way I'll truly end up writing 50K words in a month, at any rate. I'm far too much of a perfectionist. I write and rewrite almost every word two or three times even when posting on a message board; how on earth am I going to keep myself from doing that while working on a novel??

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