It has been one week of NaNoWriMo and so far I am blazing ahead full speed. I would love to take full credit for this, but let’s face it: I have been holding on to these characters inside my head for the better part of two years now. It is about time I finally gave them a reason and opportunity to come out!

The novel I am writing for this year’s NaNo is actually an idea I came up with while I was serving in Iraq a few years ago. Somewhere around August of that year our little 13-man team had been told we would be flying home soon. So after we finished tearing down our training center and wandered back across the open desert to the nearest firm base, we began the very frustrating process of trying to coordinate a flight. Continue reading →