NaNoWriMo Is Coming...

...but your Novel* Writing Days are already here. (*Or whatever you're writing!)

The High Holy Days, marking the start of the Jewish New Year, ended earlier this week. Now, I was raised Catholic, and though I went through the confirmation process as a teenager, I was already disenchanted by then, and I spent a good chunk of my adulthood as an agnostic with a keen interest in (mostly) non-Western spiritual traditions before circling …