Its November, officially the start of Nanowrimo – National Write a Novel Month – and I’m toying with the idea of at least taking a stab at it. No planning, no notes, just throw words at the page. Its been a few years since I gave it a go, and a few more since I succeeded. I’ve a couple of weeks off – why not? I didn’t do Inktober because my head’s just not been in it so might be nice to set a soft challenge. It could be argued that blogging every day would be a good way to do it.
Okay, that’s it – it won’t necessarily be a full Nano fifty thousand words, but I’ll do my best to blog every day – even if its absolute drivel – because I haven’t done as much here as I might like and I have a virtual lake of story concepts that bubble and roil in my head on a regular basis.
Also – there’s D&D sessions to write up and Draconic Prophecies to make up – and I’ll start doing Fiction Fragments again so, yeah, let’s do this…
So – last night was Halloween and the younger families on the estate met up to trick or treat as an organised activity. People were polled for whether they wanted to be involved and lists of “do not knock” given to the organisers to direct the children discretely. Our block of flats put out a basket by the front door, and while I was wrestling with a stubbornly cantankerous laptop I could hear the sounds of children laughing and shouting out to each other as they made their way round. It was a good backdrop to the evening as a contrast to the earlier fireworks and certainly made it feel joyous even as we kept a quiet evening for ourselves
As a bonus – I think I worked out what was causing problems on the machine and am now seeing if the Discord instability resolves – so fingers crossed…
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