Thinking of Fiction

 

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Okay, it’s on my mind right now because in a few days, five to be exact, I’m going to start writing a book. The original rules at NaNoWriMo – which is now defunct – were that you write your heart out in November on a novel. Quickly, rushed, no holding back. The goal was not only a novel, but 50,000 words.

Okay, so a novel is likely to be more than 50,000 words, but you do the best you can on this first stab. You will be doing rewrites as time goes by, and you move into either finishing it, and with the polishing and editing that happens after November has come and gone.

When I first started doing the November challenges with NaNo, I could hardly conceive of writing that much in a month. Interestingly, among all the platforms I write on the internet now (I’ll list them below), as of today, 10/25/25, I’ve written about 65,000 words this month. I deliberately pushed myself this month because it was probably about two weeks ago that I decided to do a November writing challenge on my own.

At this point, all I’m thinking about is a piece of fiction. Two people who have known each other in other lifetimes and who are able to recall all those lifetimes are together again. There are all sorts of psychic activity that resounds between them. Like any long-married couple, they finish each other’s sentences and know when the other is calling on the telephone. Standard stuff, except that it is intensified because one will lambast the other with accusations of an infidelity that happened 350 years before. Sort of funny. The other thing I know is that one of the character’s names needs to start with the letter G. This is thanks to somebody in Spirit who suggested that the seventh letter in the alphabet was a lucky letter.

I have all intentions of drawing upon my FIS (Folk in Spirit) to help me out on this one. I also expect that my characters will be as in-your-face as Spirit is. This idea of your characters veering off on their own agendas is nothing new in the writing community. It happens all the time. When Diana Gabaldon was writing Outlander, Claire, a main character, appeared and had ideas of her own about what was going to happen with the story, just like that.

I know what it is like, because I’ve had characters do that in the past. I wasn’t a self-declared psychic in those days, but I was able to experience the magic of writing when that happened. Now, it happens all the time. So, I’m looking forward to that part.

You might think that Spirit deserves every bit as much credit for writing the book as I do, perhaps even a share of the revenue if it gets published and makes any money. We had a discussion about this a long time ago, and I seem to recall Spirit wanting their portion to go to charity. I’m still thinking about it. As I began writing this paragraph, I could see somebody in Spirit rubbing their face with their hands. They do funny things like that.

Oh, now here’s something totally different. I was talking to my husband yesterday and said to him that I thought I might have written over 6 million words in my lifetime. He agreed. That seems like a lot, doesn’t it? I’m counting everything, including notes for books, journals, and just everything. So far in 2025, I’ve written 659,907 words, and there are still five days left in the month. It’s likely to be 700,000 words by the end of the year.

Writers need to support other writers. You need to be left alone to write, but the idea of good company is worth considering. Other writers will help you, will support you, just as you will be there for them.

Hey, thanks for reading. You can find me elsewhere on the internet. I’ll list them below.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

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