Novel Class

We're just a couple days into the novel writing class, and I'm finding this thing taking up too much of my brain space. All of a suddenly, all my free time is thinking about developing a character and conflict and all that sort of thing. I guess it some ways that is a good thing, but it is hard. I'm making some progress in my thinking, but lots still left to do.

It's an online class. There are participants from all (even Canada) over with all kinds of writing backgrounds. I'm quickly finding out that most of them take it a lot more serious than I do, and all of them spend a lot more time than I do. We're supposed to post comments and chat but that's not quite what I expected because these people are all serious about craft and there doesn't seem to be much place for my obnoxious sense of humor. These people just don't seem like they would get it.

There are weekly reading and writing assignments as well as getting the first chapter of a novel together. I don't know how I'm going to keep up. Just hoping that the wifey and kids will stay patient with me over the next 3 months.