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Hello and welcome to my website.

November was National Novel Writing Month 2008. After my marathon writing escapade last year, I decided there was no way I would try to write another 50,000-word novel in a month. But an inexplicable desire for extreme discomfort and sleep deprivation drove me to sign up on the night of 31 October and the race was on … as if I didn’t have other things to write!

The best part of NaNoWriMo is: it is so good when it ends! You get your life back as well as the first draft of a whole novel. The title of the opus this year was Father’s Land. It came in at 61,000-plus words. It is incomplete. It is raw text. But having something on paper is much much better than having nothing at all. Read more about this foolish yet satisfying enterprise by clicking on the Xpress Dubai link on the Links page. Xpress’s reporter Pauline Forte bravely ran a story on this on 18 December.

With Father’s Land Draft 1 in the bag, it was back to the book I am currently writing for Helbling: Mr Football. Watch this space for further details of Gary, my football-obsessed protagonist.
Work on the last NaNoWriMo novel Autumn in Namisa continues. A re-draft will be complete later next year. Meanwhile a book of short stories – working title Karma – is nearly finished. More of that another time.

Keep your eye on the site.

Best wishes

Janet Olearski