Well, today I started actual writing, prose sentences and all, on a new novel. This is not outlining, or note-making, or character design, but the first draft starting.

It always looks like such a mountain of work at the start. The word counts completed are so tiny, just under a thousand and the completion target so, about 80,000 huge. However the only way it gets written is doing the work.

I have long maintained the hardest part of writing is butt to chair finger to keyboard.

This book is my first attempt at a YA adventure story, something along the line of the classic SF novel Between Planets. (The second SF book I ever read.)

After this novel the next will get a little darker with one character named Reginald Duncan.