On the road again...

Uncle Travelling Matt is travelling again. We're off this week to drive down to Vancouver (with a stop-off in Kelowna to visit the in-laws) before catching a flight over the water to England. It's Finlay's first big trip so it will be an interesting adventure. There is some nice synchronicity with this trip in that Fin will be around eight-months-old, the same age Amelia was when we first took her over to meet the family. Life on the road, as usual, will be complicated and not only because we're travelling with two kids, a baby and a toddler; my time will be constrained by a need to spend several hours each week on coursework for the instructor's program I'm enrolled in. Busy, busy, busy.

Three Days of Literary Madness

I did it. I wrote a novel in three days. It was savagely wonderful. With some sponsorship, I managed to rent a room in a local BnB and lock myself away from household chores and the demands and distractions (both good and bad) of kids. I was afraid I'd stall out in the middle, but something about the deadline spurred me on, exactly what I'd hoped for. Ironically, the novel came in at only 31,000 words, but checking in with fellow writers, I've found that that's quite normal for a 3-day novel. Whew! I won't find out until January if the impossible has happened and I've actually won the contest. Not likely, but then, that's not really the point. Until then, I think I'll leave the book alone.