NEW YEAR, NEW DAY PLANNER

You know what I'm most excited for this New Year?

Using my new moleskine mini day planner. Yeah, I'm that kind of dork.

MINI PLANNERS from Moleskine ® on Vimeo.

I have the cool green one. It's so teeny!

                              Images from here and here.

There's something so appealing about such tiny organization!

On novel writing

It's so frustrating...I've got like TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND words down (it sounds like more in caps I think) but it's all short story-ish. I'm aiming for a novel, not a ... compilation. Nothing is going together right.

Have any of you ever written an entire book? Did you plan it out before hand or just ... start? I have a bunch of good pieces, but it's useless without a theme or something.

Maybe I need to plan more and start again.

Advice? Consolation?