After a rather productive week, but a weekend away from my PC, my word count stands at 10,597. To be on target for thr 50k ‘win’, I should be at 11,669. So if I get an extra thousand words or so done during the week, my weekends off will work.

It’s not exactly Hemmingway, but the story is moving along nicely. Still aiming for 50k words by November 30th!

Already a busy month due to writing a fifty thousand word novel, I’ve decided to really push myself and try and get a short story submission in this month, too. There’s actually three that I’d been thinking about due at the end of November. The one that’s most developed is a young adult supernatural story, for the Rebel Books anthology. So, while ‘The Sulphur Diaries’ is almost two days ahead of schedule, I might start thinking about my as yet untitled short.

Four friends who play a lot of co-op lan games find themselves on the wrong side of an apocalypse. Can their finely honed strategies and tactics help them survive, even without extra lives and unlimited ammo?

1st of November and National Novel Writing Month begins.  The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight, November 30.  I’ve not tried it before, but it sounds like a fun way to get a first draft out on paper without stopping to fiddle.

I’ve had the idea for ‘The Sulphur Diaries’ for a while, this is the excuse to get it written.

The Sulphur Diaries is the story of a teenage girl running away from pain who befriends a demon promising her everything that she desires, but at what cost?

Alice Murphy is a normal kid, who just happens to live in an abnormal town. Balanced on a cliff above an entrance to hell, her village has prospered for centuries by sacrificing one child a year to the demons below.  Alice is too young to be in the lottery, but when her boyfriends name comes up, she turns to the dark forces below to help them.

My profile – with my wordcount – is here.  I’ll keep a weekly running total on this blog, too.