Hi y'all.  Things have been quiet here for a few weeks, and now I'm ready to tell you why.  I've been getting ready to write a novel.  Every year, on November 1st, thousands of people join in the task of trying to write a short (50,000 word) novel in 30 days.  Since the inception of National Novel Writing Month, every year previous to this one, I remembered that fact some time after November 12.  But this year someone reminded me ahead of time and I have decided to go for it.

During the past several weeks, I've mulled over ideas and pulled together an outline and some character descriptions.  And today, about four hours ago, I started writing.  As of right this minute, I have 1230 words or so.

I'm trying to decide if I want to post the novel here, or leave it more private.  At the very least, I think I'll get around to writing up some of the characters in Unisystem, just for the amusement value.  Since I'm not exactly using the Buffy setting, there will be some compromises, but they might still be useful as NPCs.

But mostly I'll be writing like mad, since I need to write about 1667 words a day, seven days a week, to finish on time.

We will return to our (ir)regularly scheduled gaming content in about a month. :)