Here’s my first update of what I hope will be many over the next month. Some of you may be familiar with the “Lighthouse Keeper” fictional blog I kept on this site a couple years back (though still searchable if you’d like to read it). Well, in honor of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), I will be spending November writing my long-gestating novel, “Return of the Lighthouse Keeper.” I started it today, and manage to blurt out 1499 words. I hope to keep up this pace for the entire month, hopefully getting most of the way through the novel by the end of the thirty days. As a special addition to this inaugural post, please enjoy the first paragraph of the novel (done in my best John Le Carre imitation style):
It was a full month before he was able to speak again; and a month doesn’t pass easily in silence. Crippled, in his way, by the lack of speech, he passed through the month unable to make phone calls, turn on his television, or even open the door of his room at the Examination Facility. But then, he had come from the Push-Button Age, when people were forced to the edge of manual labor to do something as simple as turn on their phone. He would have preferred the independence of buttons to the slavery of silence. Though after ten years of not only silence but solitude, he delighted in a transitional month of watching the teams of experts come in day after day, announcing their excitement and skepticism to each other between the “Yes or No” questions they would put to him. Many of the questions he answered with a shrug – he wasn’t a scientist, after all. He had a few questions of his own, meanwhile, but those would have to wait.
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