Okay, so we all know bragging is not the most appealing of things to do. It’s only a one time thing, so bear with me okay? I’ve had my words so far validated by the text robot on the NaNoWriMo website and it returned this lovely image and a link for me to download my winner’s certificate.

I also get access to some other goodies, including a 50% discount on Mac-only writer’s software Scrivener, which I am now a complete evangelist for because it’s wonderful and I will shortly be parting with a ridiculously small sum of money to register the software.

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On day 3 of NaNoWriMo my word count stands at 8,458–only 41,542 words to add to that total before midnight on November 30th (he says, with a dangerously manic laugh reminiscent of Vincent Price). The story began to take on a life of its own from day one, but I am working to a framework and that really helps me to keep my focus. What follows is a very brief synopsis, more of a dust jacket blurb, really:

At the end of everything, a young man keeps a diary and his entries tell of a beautiful androgynous stranger arriving at his missing parents’ isolated farm-house, injured and confused—until the stranger’s memory of who and what he is slowly returns as strange shadow creatures begin to materialise, and the young man learns just what has happened to the world beyond the valley…

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