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National Novel Writing Month begins Saturday, Nov. 1. This will be my second year participating. I will be writing a Young Adult Steampunk novel that I am working on with my son. We have a good part of the plot worked out along with many of the characters. I don't know if I have 50,000 words in me for the month (I write at the pace of a banana slug), but I'm planning to give it my best go.
In addition to my prep work on the novel, I have spent time this month learning a new writing package that I won over the summer. Scrivener is an open ended, immensely flexible, writing tool. It has a relatively steep learning curve but after spending a couple days going through the tutorial and then playing around with it on my own, I've decided to use it in November. I hope to have a chance to give it a proper review but, in the meantime, the things I like about it include the flexibility of storing all my notes, research and pdf files within the same software that I am using to write my novel, the seamless organization and accessibility of those files, and the ease of creating and using index cards (also within the software) for organizing my story.