Tuesday, July 12, 2005  Writing the Novel AND Why I Hate The
Historian  I started my attempt at National Novel Writing Month
(known as NaNoWriMo). On the first day the word count goal is
1,667 words (or something). I wrote 2, 450. I think it's the
only day I will be ahead, so I'm bragging. Don't ask me next
week when I'm behind by 5,000 or so words. Shall I share one
line from my new version of the novel I've been working on?
Okay, I just looked at what I wrote and I can't bear to reveal
any of it here. Which must mean I am taking NaNoWriMo to heart
and have kenneled my Inner Editor. So you'll just have to wait
until August 12 (the day after I finish my novel!) to see if I
can bear to reveal any of it here, to you, my faithful readers.
In other news, I am incredibly irritated by the release and
instant Best Seller status of The Historian by Elizabeth
Kostova. First, Random House paid two million dollars for the
book, so of course they are going to promote the hell out of it
(articles in Time and Newsweek; fu