These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

It's a Novel Idea!

To write a novel, yet unwrit
with characters we make
requires a bit of strength and wit
to start and undertake.

Have they great skills and foibles rare?
Do they need others or walk alone?
What makes the readers stay and care?
At ending have the leads yet grown?

Where are we now? Where will we go?
And how will we succeed?
Exciting chase? Or what we don't know?
Great joy for those who read!

A month of days spent writing fast.
A rough draft when we're done.
How many days when this one's past
will we spend finishing one?

by Jay O’Toole
on October 21st, 2025


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