I wanted to say thanks to everyone who has been hanging in here with Typescript the past few weeks. If you’ve noticed, the challenges have been few and far and the posts even less frequent. I haven’t lost my passion for fiction writing — I don’t think I ever could, as it’s such a huge part of me — but life led me to unexpected places, leaving this site on the back-burner.

So I’m going to officially take a brief hiatus until things settle down and I get back in the swing of it all. I plan to bring Typescript back in mid-November with a new giveaway, fresh challenges, blog posts, and even some new short stories and another installment of the Annie Summer Series .

That’s all coming in the future, but I’m dedicating November to NaNoWriMo.

National Novel Writing Month occurs each November with the goal of spending every day for thirty days writing. The idea is to write. Just write. Get your story from your mind to the paper or the screen: let your characters talk, set the scene, spill the story. Write with abandon; turn off that spell-check, don’t look back, and follow your instincts as your fingers fly across the keyboard. NaNoWriMo is about telling the story.

And don’t we all have a story to tell?

I hope to put this to practice, altering it a bit so that I write at least a half an hour each day on fiction — something I’ve admittedly stalled on these past two months. Whether it’s a short story, a poem, a script, or THE NOVEL (yes, that Achilles’ heel that I love and dread and have abandoned for too long), the purpose is to write. And keep writing.

And as a congratulations to everyone who survives NaNoWriMo, there might be a special surprise giveaway at the end of November.

So keep well, keep writing, and let us know what you’ll be working on for NaNoWriMo!