So I'm working on my nanowrimo novel, which is a historical fantasy and has gone through the following titles: A BRILLIANT DARKNESS, FINN, A WORLD BEFORE US, and about...um...eight others. I'm not good at titles. I know I said I wasn't officially doing nanowrimo, but now that drive to WIN is kicking in and I'm going to try to get caught up today.

This is especially difficult because OMG THIS BOOK IS REALLY HARD TO WRITE.

I chose this idea to flesh out because I wanted to expand my writing with a Just For Fun novel. I wanted to write something outside of my comfort zone. In other words, I wanted to make myself suffer.

SO despite the fact that throughout September and October I've been reading non-fiction on my historical time period, listening to audio lectures, even watching DVDs on it, the historical-i-ness of this piece is overwhelmingly tough at times. Those of you out there writing historicals regularly? YOU ARE CLEARLY SUPERHEROS.

Anyhow, back to nanowrimo work with me. If you're on twitter, do a search for #writingparty-- every few nights I throw one (or if I'm slacking off, someone else does!) and we write like crazy people then tweet about it. You should come!