Family, Court, and Writing a Novel or How I spent my November Vacation

After a month (+) long absence I have returned. I did not expect to be gone for so long, however events over took my life. At the end of October I left for a three week visit with family in the North Eastern portion of the United States. From one house to another we went with little or no break in between stops. Needless to say, there was not a lot of time for keeping current on world events or Posting to the Blog.

Immediately upon my return I dove into a Negligent Homicide trial which involved the death of a US Service Member in Iraq. While I had worked the case for months before, it was now crunch time. I started working the final prep for the trial on Friday. On Monday the trial started. On Thursday (Thanksgiving Night) the trial ended. For that seven day time period I put in over 120 hours of work.

Then I started writing for the National Novel Writing Month contest that I had signed up for. You are suppose to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. The timing left me with six days to actually write it. To be fair, I had actually wrote about 5,000 words before. But, in six days I managed to write about 45,106 words, pushing me over that imaginary finish line. I had over an hour to go.

By the way, I am not going to say that the book was my best piece of quality ever. It did though allow me to win the contest for the second year in a row.

Now, I am back to working "normal" hours and surfing the net, radio, and TV for news. Let's have some Honest Talk.

- Zanla