But instead of the lawyer being the helpless victim, it was revenge on the highest sorts.

This visual, of the lawyer being thrown back and beheaded, stuck with me for a long time.  I knew the story would be called Guest of Honor and that the lawyer, from the Twin Cities, would be traveling up to northwestern Minnesota as a family’s guest.  The rest grew as I wrote the story.

November, for the writing world, is NaNoWriMo time: National Novel Writing Month.  In the thirty days of November, one is to write 50,000 words of a new novel.  The goal is to get people in the habit of writing everyday.  Now, most novels are longer than this, but the first 50,000 is a good start.  Guest of Honor was going to be my NaNoWriMo in February story—November, for me, seems to be a busy month.  Besides, I like to write everyday, regardless that it’s November or any of the other eleven months.  Needless to say, it took me less than a week to write and is nowhere near the 50,000 word mark.  It is a novelette, as it is roughly 10,000 words.