• The 20th Mile

    November. The longest month of the year. And this year it has felt particularly arduous. I could point a finger at the presidential election, of course, but I think NaNoWriMo has been equally to blame. I am pretty sure most of you know what NaNoWriMo is, but for those who don’t, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, and is an annual worldwide challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November.  And in a few hours, I will hopefully have achieved my third “win”. On the two other occasions I have participated, I used the month to work on a YA children’s trilogy that’s been stewing in the great casserole of my mind for about…