Perfect Day to Start

What a perfect day to start something new!
As time goes by, I am moving further and further away from my original focus on "knowledge for development," but there's a constant thread throughout my not-so-regular postings. I don't know exactly what to call it. For a long time, I have been struggling to find a project (outside of my formal job) that combined my interest in writing fiction, which I have always considered to be a hobby, and my professional interests. I wrote a post a while ago about didactic fiction, "Fiction with a Mission". The idea has been floating in my mind and it is starting to crystallize in the form of a real project.

Here is it! I am going to write a didactic novel focused on a knowledge management theme. I've already started it and it feels like a solid idea. By a "solid idea" I mean that 1) I have a good understanding of what it's going to take to complete a first draft; and 2) the theme is tightly linked to my current professional occupation so that any research I end up having to do for the novel will also be useful. It's a dual dose of professional development. I'm sharpening my skills as a writer and I'm continuing to learn about knowledge management.

It is solid enough as an idea to post something about it here. The new start I'm talking about is related more specifically to this blog. Let's think about this didactic novel project as an experiment. What am I going to learn from it? This blog will be the place to reflect on what I am learning from the experiment.