Ray E. Toler, Jr.

You may be familiar with NaNoWriMo, or “National Novel Writing Month,” in which people are encouraged to overcome their own personal inertia and write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. I’ve been intrigued with the idea since I first heard about it a few years ago, but fiction writing has always been an area that I’ve studiously avoided. I have enough trouble self-critiquing my lyrics and declaring them stupid before I’ve even finished the third line — I can only shudder in horror at the thought of reading over my own fiction…