So you wanna write a novel....

I haven't participated in National Novel Writing Month in years past, and I probably won't this time out either (since I'm already writing one), but there it is, for anyone interested. It really is true that the Big Secret to writing successfully is that one actually has to sit down and write. The problem, though, is that this also happens to be the Big Secret to writing unsuccessfully. But editors can't buy books that aren't in front of them, so all you zombies who fancy yourselves as nursing a novel within you, put it on paper. It is the only way...it is your destiny...I am your father...I need to watch Star Wars...