2010 Novel Project

As one of my Resolutions for 2010 I set myself the goal of writing a novel before the year is out. This is both a sneaky way of keeping me writing fairly regularly, and an attempt to discipline myself into writing about roughly the same thing for an extended period, without being able to justify getting bored and moving on to something else.

Based on a combination of my own experiences and lies so huge as to be unbelievable, the story will follow a twentysomething Londoner through a year's experiences using an online dating service. This structure allows each chapter to follow a single date, handily avoiding any sort of clear plot progression.

Eventually I might think of a title for the thing as well. I briefly considered calling it "An Arbitrary Number of First Dates", before realising this might get me sued by Adam Sandler. Being sued I can handle, but I just couldn't bear being associated with Adam Sandler.

As I go, I'll add chapters to this page, along with a word count. My goal is to get somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 words. This may be beginning to sound a bit like NaNoWriMo over a much longer period. All I will say to that is, I'm driven but I still want some free time, dammit!

I might edit some chapters l've already posted as time goes on. So hopefully, the finished product will be something approaching bearable to the reader. I might even get some decent similes in eventually.

Current Progress

Word Count: 41,733
% of minimum: 83.47%

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen