I would love to see more seniors give novel writing a go.  I know many held writing a novel as a goal when they were young and once we reach mature years surely that's a great time to fulfill all those unfulfilled dreams.

I am currently writing my second novel and I've been romping the word count in.  I am aiming for 50,000 word draft to be written during November.   November is the National (international actually) Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short.
I think they have just been bottled up in side me for so long they just spill out. :-). I am loving this writing.   Last year I hit the 50,000 within the first 2 weeks..  I took time away from other work to do it.  This year i am striving to keep up my other commitments but I've a year more experience in what to do to write a novel draft and I am getting there just as quickly.  

Once I have the numbers up...I slow down and begin making more sense of it all, fix the typos, focus on the dialogue, correct tense and getting the POW right, things I don't even think about when I begin the rough, block in draft.

Not thinking about rules of writing only the story line, and knowing that storyline and the characters in my head before I begin, helps me pour it out into the word processor, quickly...oh that and my new iMac computer keyboard is just brilliant at speeding up this two  fingered typists work. I've been romping the words in...I think they have just been bottled up in side me for so long they just spill out. :-). I am loving this writing.   Last year I hit the 50,000 within the first 2 weeks..  I took time away from other work to do it.  This year i am striving to keep up my other commitments but I've a year more experience in what to do to write a novel draft and I am getting there just as quickly.  

Once I have the numbers up...I slow down and begin making more sense of it all, fix the typos, focus on the dialogue, correct tense and getting the POW right, things I don't even think about when I begin the rough, block in draft.

Not thinking about rules of writing only the story line, and knowing that storyline and the characters in my head before I begin, helps me pour it out into the word processor, quickly...oh that and my new iMac computer keyboard is just brilliant at speeding up this two  fingered typists work.