My novel is still going. I’m still only at about 7000 words — over 10% of the way there! — but I think it’s going pretty well. No mat­ter how stressed I am or how much work piles up I find it pretty relax­ing to go back to the novel, even if it’s only for half an hour a week or some­thing like that.

Also I hit a very major mile­stone today: my novel’s first inter­ro­b­ang. The premise of the novel, again, is that it’s an altern­ate real­ity where another spe­cies of homo has sur­vived, in addi­tion to humans. They’re incap­able of verbal speech, though, which makes oppor­tun­it­ies for inter­ro­b­angs a little less plen­ti­ful than you’d get oth­er­wise. Oh well.

I’ve real­ized I don’t really care for drama that much. I tend to favour non-​​fiction over fic­tion and even the fic­tion I do like I gen­er­ally tend to like for the descrip­tion of the world itself. Any plot hap­pen­ings should be dir­ectly attrib­uted and in enhance­ment of the descrip­tion of the world itself and not just for drama’s sake, or so it seems. Well I threw in a bit of a plot twist today, so we’ll see how it goes.

At this rate I may even fin­ish in time for the next NaNoWriMo!