November Silence / December Noise

I know, I know—things have been quiet here as of late. I didn’t write a November post and there are two big reasons for that.

One, I took part in the carpal-tunnel-fest known as NaNoWriMo. Thus, all writing time was devoted to NaNo-ing instead of blogging and, though I didn’t win, I made significant progress on a project and churned out three times the word count I typically do in a month. So yay.

Two, like a lot of Americans, I was reeling from the results of the 2016 presidential election....