I'm going to be a novelist!

To all of you who ever encouraged me to write a book, I hope you will be pleased with these news.

I will be writing a novel for this months' National Novel Writing Month. The novel is based on an idea that's been in my head for way too long now. You may have heard me reference an allegory of mine titled The Familiar Stranger. Well, I have the plot outline, main characters, and some research done, but I've never actually written a first draft. I guess my tendency to procrastinate and the pedantic handling of my creative endeavors has hindered me so far. No longer! Tonight, I write!

I'm not quite sure if I'll be able to finish my novel before the given deadline, as I began writing about a week and a half late. What I am writing is a very rough first draft, so I don't imagine I'll be releasing it to the general public. I'm pretty psyched about writing this novel, even though it's based on a dark time in my life, and some parts are somewhat painful to put on paper. The general genre I'm aiming for is Gothic/Mystery.

And now it's time to start writing away.