I keep going back and forth about whether I should try to write Unexpected Voyage for NaNoWriMo this year. I already have 8-10k starts on Otters In Space 4, In a Dog’s World 2, and Xeno-Spectre. So I feel like I should focus on one of them instead… and yet…
I figure, if I hit Halloween midnight without having picked a different novel to focus on, I’ll go ahead and start Unexpected Voyage. So, I have five days to re-familiarize myself with the other options and see if I can commit to one.
Right now, for my mental stability, I do think I need to have a specific novel I’m focusing on. That’s what’s carried me through the first half-year of this pandemic, and I don’t feel up to messing around with a formula for daily survival that’s working.
I do miss writing short stories, but they don’t have the same reliability and pull of a novel that you’re making steady progress through. I need a novel to lean on.