Elliot Kessler

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I know I’m late, but better late than never.

November has been an eventful month. It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I decided to take the challenge and do my best to write 50,000 words in thirty days. I hadn’t really attempted this challenge before, so I was very excited. Unfortunately, the story I came up with was half-baked and not very interesting, but at least I could write it and practice getting faster.

It was fun for the first week. I had a blast each time I sat down to write. But the next week I was schedule for more hours at work than normal. It was a pain, but I barely managed to scrape through that week while maintaining a consistent word count.

Then I started feeling bad. The fever came, and the spots soon after.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I have chicken pox for the second time!

The fever was really bad, so I stopped writing for a week, and I still haven’t gotten back to it. The fever is gone, but the spots are still there. I should recover by next week, but that’s still a whole other week.

So, I’m probably not finishing NaNoWriMo this year, but that’s okay. I’ll still work on some other projects. I’ve been wanting to write some more short stories, and maybe I’ll write some more novellas. I really enjoyed writing The Eorum Chronicles: The Shadowman, and I think writing some sci-fi novellas like The Time Machine could be a blast.

My next few novels should release sometime next year. They’ll be the first novels of a series. I’m loving the first book so far, and I cannot wait to write the others. I am very excited for you to read them, and I hope you’re looking forward to them as well. But for now, I am still recovering, and I will get back at it soon.

Happy holidays!

Elliot Kessler