DAY 3: thoughts on a summer novel

See that white hammock hanging between two coconut trees? That's where I am right now--in my dreams. I want to be there so badly right now, with the breeze billowing around me while my pen stands poised above my notebook, ready to transfer my thoughts into scribbles.

Since the NaNoWriMo 2010 ended, I have not sat down to write a single word to add to my novel. Instead, on January, I thought up another one. Such is life. I've never finished writing a novel. Never. Instead, I have written chapters and snippets on so many unfinished ones, only to abandon them for another, and return to them only when I browse through my files. So it should come as no surprise that I've just had another plot for another novel even though I haven't completed the one I was working on two months ago. Sigh. Is this a writer-related disease or am I just showing an admirable lack of willpower?

Anyhow, for The Novel (that shall probably go the way all my previous novels did),I'm thinking of something summer-y. In Boracay? Barbados? California? How will it end? Of course, I'm partial to happy endings like majority of the world, but it wouldn't hurt to end with a hint of regret. Something new, something realistic, something that would challenge my brain cells. How will it begin? (Yeah, I think of the ending first before the intro. I'm weird like that.) In a quaint cafe? In a minimalistic bedroom within a condominium? Where where where?

As for the most important part--yes, silly, The Plot--I'll dredge that up tomorrow. Because sometimes, it just pops up from nowhere. And that's what makes it interesting.


Photo credits: Summer Beach (free-extras.com)