My fiction writing progress

Ouch. Last post, September 6. That doesn't mean I haven't been making progress ... or does it? Let's say that there aren't many more fiction words on a page (a few, but nothing significant) but I have been surrounding myself with the right environment:

1. Since I started having a longer train and bus journey to work, I've become addicted to Podcasts from Paula B's The Writing Show. Many of the interviews and discussions focus on important issues for me like fiction writing, finding motivation and time, and making a living from your writing.
2. I've become the Grants Officer at FAWWA, the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA, where I can meet an interesting bunch of writers and get involved in a worthy cause (at the moment, finding enough funding to keep the Fellowship afloat).
3. At school I found myself sitting next to cult novelist Cry Bloxsome, reminding me that novelists are more-or-less ordinary people like me.
   
4. And my newest paid work at the travelzine Vagabondish is much closer to being exactly the kind of writing I want to do: meaningful, not about advertising, and deeply satisfying to write.

Should I 'fess up now that the promised novel is not going to finished by the end of 2007? You'd probably guessed that. Perhaps trying to write a novel as my husband tried to settle in to a new country, me into a new job, while buying a house and moving into it and ... the list goes on, was not a good plan. That said, I've half considered doing NaNoWriMo this year, but November starts tomorrow and ... I think I'll just keep going my way for now. Don't worry: the novel will get written.