NaNoWriMo 2016 is done and dusted. Or is it?
I’ve written 54,493 words and a few hours ago I pasted my text into the NaNoWriMo word count goblin, and he chewed it up, spat it out, and said ‘YES, you’re a winner!‘. Then the NaNo crew appeared, yelled their congratulations and gave me a round of applause.
This is my 6th NaNoWriMo win, and it’s still a great thrill to have finished.
But, wait, it isn’t over yet. As a NaNo rebel, my self-inflicted challenge was to write 30 short stories during the 30 days of November. One story per day. #30days30shorts
Day 24: Goodbye Cruel World
The prompt for this story was another Writing Magazine competition.
The theme? “Goodbye.”
I got the idea for this story some time ago, but it didn’t turn out exactly as I planned. That’s been happening with many of my stories this month. They’ve been running feral and tearing off in new directions. Continue reading “Day 24 and Day 25 of NaNo and I’m a winner!”
Ruth Livingstone 