Well, against all of my own expectation, I managed to straggle over the 50k mark and win NanoWriMo this year. I’d burned through the first couple of weeks, then the unthinkable happened – the best computer game ever™, was released and I lost all my free time.

Now, I tried the excuse that Dragon Age: Origins is a masterpiece of story and narrative (it is) and that you could do worse for an example of character interaction (most TV shows), but this didn’t wash with Nige and Andy, who laughed.  Rather cynically.  Bah.

As the rather smart Chuck Palahniuk says “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”  After falling in love with the story in ‘Dragon Age’, those bastards at Bioware broke my heart with the ending, inspiring me to do the same damage to other people.  I wrote more ‘Sulphur Diaries’ and managed to get just over 51k words done by today.

Now back to another playthrough of ‘Dragon Age’, just for research purposes of course.