I don't do NaNoWriMo because every month is novel-writing month for me. (I like to think of it as being akin to the vampires and monsters on Buffy having a night off for Halloween).
But I do vaguely follow NaNoWriMo from a distance, the same way an MMA fighter might stop to enjoy a punch-up between two drunks in the car park of Guzman e Gomez. And last week things got super punchy.
From The Verge:
I’ve never sent one of these from the Burger before, but since a few kind people insisted on paying me for this blog, I insist on you giving you a freebie in return.
This is The Javan War, an origin story for Lucinda Hardy, one of the principal characters from The Cruel Stars trilogy. I finished writing the last book in that trilogy nearly one year ago, …
I was just chatting with Jason, and he mentioned he was off to enjoy a delicious burrito for dinner. By weird coincidence, I’d just finished a delicious burrito for breakfast.
This bad boy from Doc Brown in West End.
By Michael Deacon on Inferno, for UK newspaper The Telegraph, 2013:
I have no reason for sharing this other than my utter enjoyment of it.
