NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Eighteen

  • Words written: 2,344
  • Total words written: 26,730
  • Stories written: 4
  • Total words behind: 3,270

My graph on the nanowrimo.org site looks like a wavy shadow following the line where I should be. Still in the game, just not where I should be. If it keeps going this way, maybe I’ll do a stream-of-consciousness interview with each of the major characters from Queen of the Falconstar to pad out my numbers at the end. Or would that be cheating? I guess I could use them as bonus content after the novel comes out.

Anyways, good progress today. Instead of working on that Mythulu story, I dusted off an old short story outline from the trunk and decided to run with that instead. It’s turning out pretty good, perhaps even pro material–if all of the professional professional short story markets in science fiction didn’t skew so damned hard to the Left. But even though this one is clearly political, I’m writing it in such a way that either side can pick it up and run with it. Hopefully. But I’m not going to take out that creepy slogan that keeps popping up everywhere, “build back better.” Because those Davos crowd creeps, with their Great Reset, are truly the enemy. Do you know how much good I could do for the world right now if I had a death note? Which would also make for a great, yet unsaleable story.

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

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