I won National Novel Writing Month! In other words, today I passed 50,000 words in November. I was trying not to write at quite the breakneck speed I have the last two years. In 2018 I won in fifteen days. In 2019, twelve days. My goal this year was to slow down and win in twenty days, but I got carried away sometimes and ended up winning in seventeen days. That would suggest that I’ll end up surpassing my 75,000-word goal. That’s all right. I just want to get as close to a complete first draft as I can. I recognize, though, that it will need major work afterward, especially since my curmudgeon isn’t quite curmudgeonly enough. And I’m only about two thirds of the way through the story.