There's no way I can write 50,000 words of one story if I had all the time in the world, never mind one month. Last year, though, 5000 words was a much more viable target, so for picowrimo I wrote a radio script that I'd written one scene of and not done any more on. I did finish it, but I was still trying to work out the plot as I went along and I realised that since I needed to write a character out that it needed a page 1 rewrite really badly.

Which I meant to do, really. But instead I nicked the plot for my Big Finish competition entry. And still meant to come back to the script and then October came round and I thought it's ok, I'll do it for Pico. Which was fine until one night last week when I couldn't sleep and I realised that the idea works much better in half the number of words and I just can't add in enough without feeling like I'm padding it.

Which is a problem. It was one easily solved, though, because I have ideas for stories I want to write. Well, mostly they're things I want to write that need plots - I'm really not that great on plots. However I do have one that came from me trying to work out in my head if Harry Sullivan was once married and no one ever knew, how did that come about? I haven't got as far as writing it and I think it would actually work better with original characters. So that's the basic plot of my script (I have more than that I'm just being cagey about it because I haven't pinned it all down yet).

So far I've thought about it today and read a radio script off the BBC website. At some point I will start writing and it will be finished by the end of November. I'll probably count in pages though, since it makes more sense with scripts. Once I've double checked how many pages 30 minutes is...

There's also Yuletide. My recipient was quite easy in what they wanted and didn't suggest much. So I'm sure it will go fine once I have a plot. However, it doesn't take long to write 1000 words, so November will be for research, so I know these characters well, and to hopefully get inspired as to what to write. I'm quite enjoying the research element so far. I could certainly spend the whole month doing it...