Beyond Romance November 27, 2023 Hello everyone. Hope all my US peeps had a nice turkey day. Somehow, I made it through my first attempt to host Thanksgiving dinner. I won't lie. I loved it. I maybe stepped up to take the workload off my mom, but once I got into it (and realized I could buy food instead of cooking it myself) I had fun. The only downside was it did cut into my writing time just a bit, but it was worth it. Huge thanks to my family for being understanding and helpful. And now it's the last week of NANOWRIMO and I'm running into the final stretch... Currently at a little more than 40,000 words with a goal of 50,000 I was trying to explain my writing process to a friend the other day and I think I just came off sounding crazy. But the short of it is... I often feel like I'm along for the ride and mostly let the characters drive the story. After I come up with an idea, then I try to get to know the characters, how they think and what moves them. Onc...