Well, now. I finished the rough -- very rough -- first draft of the third Johannes Cabal novel the other week and I've had a few days break just writing scrips and scraps. I don't intend to go back to the Cabal until the beginning of December when I've had a chance to forget what I wrote and can go back to it with a more objective eye. Now, however, I am girding my loins for what I shall be doing in the interim. I've had a few ideas for other non-Cabal books I'd like to write, but was wondering when I might have a chance to actually sit down and turn one from ideas into prose. 

So, because I like setting myself up for failure, I've signed up to the National Novel Writing Month (NaNiWriMo), a global (despite the "National" bit) frenzy of verbiage during which one tries to write fifty thousand words constituting either a novel or the beginning of one in the space of a single month, specifically the thirty days of November. 

I must be mad.

I'm not a fast writer at the best of times, and the chances of me managing 50k in a month is cracking on towards zero. Still, even if I fail miserably and only manage, say, 25k, that's still 25k of hopefully usable prose that can be built upon. The story I want to write is pretty high energy and would work better at a short novel length anyway, so I shall try for the 50k in any event. I'll just have to see how it goes. I will also try to keep updates here and on Twitter (the account name is jonathanlhoward) to keep folk informed as to just how badly I'm doing. 

Wish me luck.