Ghost of a Chance
I'm writing a ghost story (novel) right now. I'll admit that I'm animated by a cavalcade of distress, so maybe I'm therapeutically indulging in a literary phantasm to get myself through trying times.
Maybe it's also the chilly winter air and the falling snow. Often I try to write a "scary story" in October, but last October was so fraught with the election, I didn't do it.
Now that we're in imminent national catastrophe, I'm in more of a place where I can write it. And so there it is.
I'm planning for 60-70K words for this one. I never feel like a ghost story should overstay its welcome. This one should top out at that length and that'll be that.
Should it go well, I'm thinking it might surface in Autumn '25 (most likely October). We'll see.
I don't believe in ghosts (although I've seen ghostly things I can't entirely explain), but that degree of objectivity lets me play in the ghost story world with impunity. Hopefully readers will enjoy it (and by "enjoy" I mean: buy, read, rate & review).
Maybe it's also the chilly winter air and the falling snow. Often I try to write a "scary story" in October, but last October was so fraught with the election, I didn't do it.
Now that we're in imminent national catastrophe, I'm in more of a place where I can write it. And so there it is.
I'm planning for 60-70K words for this one. I never feel like a ghost story should overstay its welcome. This one should top out at that length and that'll be that.
Should it go well, I'm thinking it might surface in Autumn '25 (most likely October). We'll see.
I don't believe in ghosts (although I've seen ghostly things I can't entirely explain), but that degree of objectivity lets me play in the ghost story world with impunity. Hopefully readers will enjoy it (and by "enjoy" I mean: buy, read, rate & review).
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