Seventh Pitch

Well, I have been busy during the month of November.  I wrote a novel with National Novel Writing Month sponsored by the Office of Letters and Light located in San Francisco.  National Novel Writing Month is a wonderful program that encourages people of all ages to write a 50,000 word novel in "30 days and nights of literary abandon" throughout the month of November.  (For those of you that are interested, they have a similar event in April called Script Frenzy to write a 100 page : Screenplay, stage play, TV show, short film, or graphic novel.)  For both events, you get to the goal, you win!  Simple.

Well, not to simple. I actually learned a lot from doing this.  I learned that a novel can write itself and become something far different from what was intended in the first place.  I have heard of writer's block but having actually experienced it, I can now sympathize.  (Had to kill off a minor character to make the words start flowing again.  That was advice from my dear husband - remember him? Mr. Pitcher.)

Anyway, I have had this idea for many years (Thanks Robin for giving me this D&D character and never letting me play her so I had to think about this character for 30 years) and I always wondered how it would turn out.  Now I know.  I actually have a prequel planned for next November that tells how some of the minor characters from this book met each other in their young adventuring days - but that is a year off and so I shall think about Lady Audrel, Brother Brennon and Jezriel (who will someday become The Jedron) until then and I am sure that what I think about now will have an entirely different ending when I actually write it next year.