At last I feel I’m getting somewhere. I’ve had “the dark story” beta’d and it’s back with me now to beat out the bits that don’t make sense (lots of them), but I’m in the home straight. What on earth did I do before I had a beta?
Another story, which I sort of wrote as a response to a challenge (somewhere on VAMB) has been sent for beta’ing and I’m currently jotting down notes (while still fixing up the dark’un) for another story. From yet another challenge at VAMB.
There’s nearly three weeks to go until NaNoWriMo, but as yet, I haven’t got even an inkling of what to do. Perhaps my latest outline/challenge story may suffice. Although I doubt it.

Still working away on “the dark story” (not the working title). It’s a little less dark now, which is good, because it was starting to depress me. It’s about the only thing I’m working on at the moment but it’s still growing in size. That I haven’t got a proper ending for it hasn’t got me panic struck yet, but I’m sure it will soon.
Still, I did it. And finished early too. If you can call it finished. Hopefully though, I can have it ready to post within a few weeks, after I’ve changed a major part of the setup (I had this new idea day before yesterday, but controlled myself and didn’t succumb to the rewrite temptation – hence the early finish). I think the final product will be lucky to be 30,000 words.