Planning, the relaxed way (Cecilia Peartree)
So October is here, and as well as bringing with it an eye operation which I'm trying not to panic about, the next steps in integrating two new cats into the household, and my older son's 40th birthday, which has come round very much sooner than I expected, this means National Novel Writing Month is just round the corner. Partly because of the impending eye operation, I wasn't sure I would be able to take part in NaNoWriMo at all, or at least not to complete the challenge successfully, something which I would have found hard to live with after more than a decade of reliably churning out 50,000 words every November. However now that I have an early October date for the eye thing it seems a bit more feasible. I've also now managed to decide which of two projects I want to work on next. At one point it had seemed as if I would have to go into 'NaNo rebel' mode and work on a bit of each of them, which I would also have found unsatisfactory. As they are bo...