November sadness and gladness

Well. That was a month.

NANOWRIMO 2013: Began well and kept a steady pace, but wrote on shuffle without enough story arc in my mind. Last year I’d spent 6-8 months thinking about the first 2/3 of the novel which equaled 58,000 words. This year, I think I wrote all the scenes I’d thought about and ended with 35,000 words. Still, not shabby. Biggest month of the year for writing.

The distraction for NANOWRIMO was last years NANOvel ALL IS SILENCE, and oh, what a wonderful distraction it is. T...