This blog is an attempt at "blogging a novel," which simply means I will be writing the novel online. I will regularly post chapters (a chapter a week is my goal), and I will add other content from time to time in an attempt to build an audience for the book.
Until now, all of my writing has been in the form of plays. Some are stage plays, and some are audio-based comedies and thrillers (to hear some examples of my work, click on some of the links you'll find in the sidebar to the right of this post). But I have always wanted to write novels.
I've dabbled with novel-writing, of course. I've started four different novels, but each time I eventually lost steam at somewhere around the hundred-page mark. Hopefully, this blog -- more specifically, the audience reading this blog -- will motivate me to keep going.
That's the plan.
I believe having an audience will give me a sense of responsibility. I'll tell myself each week, "my readers are counting on me."
This could really work... or it could end as yet another unfinished novel, the only real difference being that this one would left floating somewhere out in the nearly-infinite digital cloud rather than being hidden away from the light of day in a forgotten box of file folders.
God help me, I really want to write -- and to finish -- a novel.
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