This is the final update on this craziness on a 3-day novel (or rather novelette). I finished with a little more than an hour to spare at 32,010 words. It's just pure craziness. (Tentacle monsters! Pirates! Plot holes the size of the Grand Canyon!) It's been a while since I've done any writing without prior planning and I've realized how much I do depend on it to have things go smoothly. As it is, the draft I've just created over Labor Day Weekend is way too rough for me to show it to anybody although I suppose there are bits and pieces of it I could probably cobble together later to make a decent short story.
