Day 1 of November’s 50,000 words in 30 days writing challenge and here’s the update:

I’ve got nothing.

The day isn’t over yet, but right now that’s my update. With the following addendum. I took a little time today to finish off a story to submit to The First Line, something I’ve been unable to accomplish for more than a year. I’m not sure the story’s any good — I’m suspicious of anything I write that doesn’t have any dialogue even though I like to try a story like that every now and then — but it’s good to get back in the game. I’m hoping that accomplishment gives me some momentum for this month. I’m gonna need all the help I can get because if you haven’t heard, right now I’ve got nothing.

And to prove my point, here’s a quick excerpt from Secret Identity, the story I submitted today:

Yes, the movie. Plenty of words have been written about the Multyman movie, a few by people who actually knew what they were writing about. All I’ll say about it is yes, it was a bomb, the biggest bomb of the half century according to the people who track such things. It was done on the cheap and yet everyone involved still lost money. It ruined a half dozen careers, including my father’s, and it still tops almost every list of bad movies no matter what the list’s conceit happens to be. It’s never been released on home video and probably never will be. I have access to a copy but have never watched it all the way through. And honestly, if even half the people who claim to have seen it in all its glorious awfulness during its brief run had actually plunked down cash for a ticket, that movie would’ve been a modest hit and maybe some careers could’ve been saved.

The movie fiasco was all my father’s doing, too. He made a bad deal and let the pack of amateurs at the studio step all over him. He didn’t see it that way, though. He went to his early grave claiming they’d done a fine job and if anything, their biggest mistake was being ahead of their time. If that movie has a time, we’re nowhere near approaching it yet.

And now, on to NaNoWriMo!