Looking forward to giving my first go at NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month.  Taking inspiration from my daughter Savannah who has successfully complete the event four times already, I am geared up and ready to go.

My launching point is the 30 short story ideas I generated in August of this year, with outlines for ten different stories.

The standard goal is 50,000 words, but I am setting mine at 30,000.

I have only found an hour to write per day so far, but have managed to do so for five days to date with a near 5,000 words completed.  I will have to step up the word count to make my goal but I think I can do it.  I should have at least six first draft horror/supernatural short stories by Novembers end. 

Then I can use the holidays to polish them up.

Savannah's Nine Years of Blogging

I look back over this blog which I have had for SOOOOOOO long and marvel at the drop off of posts from year to year.  With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and so many other platforms, it is difficult to maintain any regular content.

So it is with great fatherly pride that I share Savannah Fry's ninth anniversary post.  She has struggled, (slightly) to maintain posting but relates nicely in her post the reasons for this struggle as well as how she is refocusing.

Here is her Playing in the Pages  post.