November’s over and I get to keep the 52,274 words!

‘ could hardly wait to tell you is that I finished my third Nano comedy in time to scoop up the 2014 dragon slayer’s certificate!  And like my first two, I never used more than two fingers at the same time. Eight more might have made things go faster, but maybe not, since it was my characters who set the speed, not my clumsy fingers.. … But I bet if I had used more fingers, there might have been lots fewer typos.

Now that my 52,274 words are fast asleep in my computer, I’m going to see if a few of my new characters wouldn’t mind doing their own typing, next November. Or else I’ll hire a ghost writer to manage the typing for us, and maybe a little this and that.  Somebody we all like.

By the way, this is a good time to thank my characters who never took naps when I did, and always waited for me to catch up.  Thank you, Elliot Recount Recounte, who quit the New York Times to join the Big Island rescue mission, and, of course, many thanks also to Pluto and Marcus Sylvester, Malala, Amadon, and Herkimer Raleigh, who masterminded Risk-Free Astrology, and not to forget both Larry Rockefellers.

And even though the disappearance of the Banana Bisque recipe had everybody turning Maui restaurant kitchens upside down, it all worked out. Right after the Mauna Kea chef got fired, the recipe landed in the black market, further fueling inter-island tensions, and even though I shouldn’t tell you —