The Big DumpTruck

Because nobody is checking in over on my Nano blog, I figured I'd do a Nano update here. We're in the final stretch. My novel is horrific. The Nano slogan "No Plot, No Problem" has never been put to better use than my novel, which, while it hints slightly at a plot in the first 8000 words or so, never actually comes around and has one. It is so far from being a finished novel that it makes last year's look like a Pulitzer Prize Winner. I'm stunned at the difference, actually. I think last year I thought my plot idea was pretty cool and it was very workable (it was about a compulsive shopper) and this one (about a guy who finds out his parents were circus freaks but then doesn't do anything about it, based on what I've written so far) stinks.

There are only 11k words left, and I really want to just finish the danged thing so I can do other stuff.

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