I'm back!

When I left you in November, it was because I was busy completely NaNoWriMo. In the first three days of November, I easily wrote 2500 words a day, and so I decided to continue with this target throughout the month. I managed it, leaving me with 75,000 words of a novel, but it was exhausting and time consuming and I just didn't have the time or motivation to blog.

After that, I had my January exams to revise for.

And somewhere along the way I forgot about this blog. For that, I apologise; I spent about an hour finding it again, though, and now I'm back.

This year so far, I've done the vast majority of a twelve week creative writing course for the Open University. I'll write another post summarising each of the five blocks and I might post my first assessment piece. The second (and final) assessment is due in for the 27th, and at the moment it's a work in progress.

Yesterday, I finished the first draft of my NaNoWriMo novel, which is temporarily named Courage To Live. It ended up being just over 90,000 words so, seeing as I wrote 9000 words beforehand, it's taken me four and a half months to write about 6000 words. Hmm. The wonderful thing is that, once my next lot of exams are over, I can finally edit this novel into something worth reading. I'm proud of myself for completing just the draft, because it means I cared enough to finish it, albeit slowly, which I didn't do with my novel of 2010 (because it was a pile of horse crap).

Expect a few posts about my Open University course, updates on my editing of Courage To Live, some random facts about grammar and language, and then in August possible silence as I once again attempt to complete NaNoWriMo - but in the summer!

Lex :)