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NaNoWriMo has turned out to be very very addictive. I wrote over 4000 words today, and wrote more than 2000 words on all days after the first day, when I decided late at night that I would give it a shot. At last I have something I can really focus on again!

It's affecting my day job too. At work, I crank out words for a living, and knowing that I can crank the mout much, much faster than I've done so far is very motivational.

It's not so good for my physical fitness as I'm skipping gym time to work on it. It's also costing me sleep.

I am learning a lot about my strengths and weakness as a writer. The tone and humour of my work in progress are derivative, and I need to work on description and characterization - one of which I never needed to learn for my comics as I could draw what I needed, and the other I didn't always have as much space for in the panels as I now have in prose writing.

Drivel-in-progress is posted daily on my DeviantArt site. It's bad - it's a first draft that I'm cranking out in my spare time, working from a comic script that I never finished. But I hope it's bad in interesting and illuminating ways, and that by the time I'm done, I'll know what I need to know in order to make the second draft work properly as a novel.

Progress on Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan is slow as ever. A few more pages from the Invasion storyline are inching their way towards completion. Invasion will almost certainly end before Feral does, even though Invasion is later than Feral in the overall continuity.

At this rate, it'll take me years to get around to doing the other storyline that I need to fill up the overall continuity. There's a long story originally from 1996/1997 missing from the archives. I hate how that one turned out but have been meaning for the past few years to fill the gap with a re-written, re-drawn version of that story. Well, it seems like drawing is out of the question, but Aggie actually handed me the solution to this problem the other day when she started talking about her project for National Novel Writing Month which is a sequel to the comic American Gothic Daily. For me to write the new version of King Groy as a 50,000-word novel would be good writing practice and a good way to fulfill a years-old commitment that has always been at the back of my mind.

My Nanowrimo profile is here here and I'll try to post word count updates daily. Updates of the first draft will appear on my DeviantArt account before they'll appear on the ROCR website... so I can polish them up if they suck.

Aggie's new novel is on her DeviantArt account. It's rough, as mine will be, but that's what you get when you just push out the words and post your first draft.