I must either be a writing fool, or just a foolish writer, but since I signed up for November Novel  in a Month, my laptop is, well, on my lap and I just passed the 25,000 word count at 1/2 way through the month, so 50,000 doesn't seem as nearly as impossible as it did 2 weeks ago.

 Now, this third novel of mine I actually started WAY back in 2001. Sad to say 8 years have flown by with not much more than the title and a sketchy outline. There were always so many excuses, but maybe what was preventing me from moving forward was the block in my head, or the blockhead in my bed, or whatever gave me the message that no one would want to read the finished product. 

Now, if maybe I'd run for VP, and lost, then quit my "job", then wrote a book about it, which would soar to #1 no matter how badly written it was, or if I was an actor playing the part of a writer who had written a fake best seller that became a real book not written by the actor who played the fake writer who wrote the fake best seller....uh, am I'm losing anyone yet?
Then, maybe I'd have a chance! 

It's a very sorry state of affairs when a fake writer and a fake political candidate, (or, sorry, I thought that was Tina Fey) can  hit the best seller list and real live people can't even break into the top 100 of Amazon.com.  

Ok, I lied. This real person actually writes under a "fake" name and my book, Blood Tastes Lousy With Scotch by Robin C. Westmiller, J.D. has,  in fact made it to the top 100  of the Amazon best seller list in the category of elder abuse (it's not a Vampire novel as some have suggested, and Red Wine For Breakfast is NOT a cookbook)

So, with no negative thoughts of what I'm going to do after this book is completed, how I'm going to pitch it to an agent who will try to pitch it to a "traditional" publisher, or go the print on demand route, or how I'll market the book, and all the rest of that part of publishing, I'm just going to not think about anything BUT making that goal of 50,000 words by Nov 30. 

I think that's a pretty huge goal for now...for a "real" writer!