The Works

I have decided I'm going to make a start on my novel today, henceforth to be referred to as 'the works'.

It's taken barely a couple of years to come up with the title, Wilde, Sex and Murder at the Blue Cock Hotel, and a few weeks ago I came up with as good an opening hook as my tiny mind is ever likely to muster. All that's left now is the tiny little task of writing the actual thing.

I've clearly missed this being a New Year's resolution, but seeing that yesterday marked T minus 200 days to the Olympics (super hooray and and all that stuff) it seemed as good as any point to set myself a clear aim: write 500 words a day in order to reach my 100k.Obviously now there's only 199 days to go, but I'm hopeful of making that lost 2.5 words per day up over the next 199 (I'm not really - in fact I don't think I'll even get 500 words done this evening).

Right, I've opened Microsoft Word. It's how all the greats began...