The New Novel

Well the good news is that I’ve been novel writing again this week.  Quite a lot in fact.  There’s just one small caveat:  It’s a different novel.

I know, I know, but I couldn’t resist.  I just got an idea in my head at the start of the week and I couldn’t help but start playing around with it.  I mean, it’s hardly like I’m taking up time I would have spent writing the previous novel, because I probably wouldn’t have done any writing this week.  I don’t know how far I’m going to get with it, but I am a little excited about it.  Writers talk about finding their voices and I don’t know if I have yet, but I’m starting to think this idea might help me do that.  It’s a comedy, a geeky comedy, perhaps even a satire.  I haven’t got the whole thing planned out in my head yet but it’s coming together.  I’ve written the first chapter and I really like it.  I’ve made myself laugh a lot writing it.  There are a couple of lines in there that I’m quite proud of myself for coming up with actually.

Am I simply moving my focus onto something new in an attempt to justify not finishing the rewrite of the first novel.  Maybe.  Probably.  But what the hell eh?