CommuterLit‘s last newsletter and last week of postings for the year will be Dec. 14-19. We’ll be back with a new post and newsletter on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026.
CommuterLit editor Nancy Kay Clark is participating in November’s Novel Writing Challenge (Write 50,000 words of a draft by the end of the month). Her current word count is: 19,059.
Reports Nancy: “Scattered throughout this very rough first draft are notes to myself in parentheses — so the actual word count of the story is probably a lower than this total. Also, I don’t know if anyone else does this, but when writing a first draft what comes quickly to me is the dialogue. So I end up with whole pages of dialogue and then I go back afterwards and fill in the descriptions and internal thoughts.”
Anybody else taking up the challenge? How are you doing?
Let us know.
