I am going to try something a little bit audacious in the month of November: to write every day, averaging (at least) 500 words each day. I have wanted for years to do NaNoWriMo, but at this point I am unwilling to commit to the time to write 1,600 words of a novel per day—not least because of the up-front planning it would take me not to run out of story-telling steam. I have also wanted to get my writing muscles back in gear for quite some time. While I have been blogging off and on over ...