It is November again! The best month of the year because it means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has arrived. The time has come to buckle down and write 1666 words per day in a new novel, and I am so ready!

Last year I discussed some of the details of NaNoWriMo, but more importantly, I successfully reached the target 50k words in a month. It was quite exciting for me because it was only the 4th time in 13 years that I actually completed a novel during November.

This year is also exciting because it will be the last time I will be competing before becoming a father, so it will probably be the easiest I will have it for a decade or so.

Of Teeth and Dreams

Dream collects nightmares and blissbubbles from children while their guardians are away and delivers them back home to the Fae Wilds.
He wants life to be more than the endless parties and adrenaline highs of the job, but he knows better than to break rank.
When he accidentally brings a child home, he gets exactly what he wished for and more: after all, the threats of being banished forever pale in comparison to the monster stalking them.

This year’s project is an adult supernatural horror inspired by a short story I wrote and published last Halloween, where Gaiman’s Neverwhere meets Monster’s Inc.

The story includes themes of found-family, fatherhood, living nightmares, fae tricksters, and midlife crises. I have been planning this novel since the end of last November, and I have the majority of the book outlined, so I have a solid foundation for where I want to go this year.

Wish me luck, and let me know what you are writing too.