NaNoFAILMo

I have given up on trying to write a 50K word novel in only a month. Who am I kidding, I'm not even motivated enough to blog about random things - let alone write a novel from scratch. Despite the quantity over quality nature of the challenge and the slogan of "No Plot? No Problem!" - I am a mild perfectionist at heart and will constantly edit and re-edit my work while it is still in progress. Case in point: within 5 minutes of starting this post, I've already started editing sentences and checking the fluidity. Damn. This is why I'd never make it to fifty thousand words. Shit, I didn't even make it to 100 words. But I promised y'all I'd keep you in the loop of my novel endeavors, so without further ado, the first 95 words of my failed novel. Enjoy!

Aeschylus once said, "In war, truth is the first casualty." I'll bet he's damned proud to know that after 4000 years, he's still right. The histories will declare that this war is the War of all wars; how easily they forgot all the other "war of all wars" that we've endured. To some, war is the single greatest human invention, one that is simultaneously the source of our greatest advancements - and our greatest declines. To me, war is just another paycheck waiting to be cashed. My name is Kathryn Tegav, and this is my story.