National Novel Writing Month

Posts have been sparse here for November. Some of that is because I always have trouble keeping up with writing a blog, but a larger part was that I was participating in National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word first draft of a novel in the month of November (or any other month; November is just the official month.) I didn’t know if I would be able to do it, but I did. I finished last night just over 50,000 words.

It was fun. I enjoy writing, but don’t do it nearly enough. It was a stretch for me as I’ve never written a novel before–only essays and short stories. I suppose the genre would be considered philosophical fiction. Everything I write tends to end up philosophical. Anyway, I’ll be taking a break from that now and in a few weeks I’ll start the job of editing it and making it perfect.

In the meantime, I figured I would write an update here. Things are going slow. Talking with a therapist is helping I think, but we end up talking about other subjects just as much as we do this issue it seems. Everything seem to have settled down a bit. When I started this blog, there was a sense of urgency, but now there isn’t so much. The sense comes and goes with me. I just have to make sure to keep moving now.

Well, that’s my update. I’ll try to post on here more often from here on out.

Tattoo

Ugh. I’ve done it again. Whenever I start some sort of blog, I start strong and then slowly stop posting. I’m going to try hard to keep this going though.

I thought I’d post something that didn’t really have to do with my transition today. I want to get a tattoo. I’ve been thinking about it for a while now, but just haven’t perfected the idea and don’t really have the spare cash for it.

I want to get the mantra of the Heart Sutra on my back in Devanagari. I haven’t quite figured out how I want it though. I could do it sideways so it’s running down my back or just on one of the sides towards the top. What do you think?