It’s nearly November again, the month of NaNoWriMo – which is, of course, to say, the month in which complete novels get written. As usual, I’ll be diving in and creating a new something-set-in-Second-Life. November just wouldn’t now be November without a mad dash to create a new novel by the end of it. It has to fly by in a lumbering, awkward and yet slightly panicked manner, a bit like the bus that somehow takes you unawares when you’re walking beside the road and is suddenly passing you in a way that’s somehow both shockingly fast and unfathomably slow.

As usual, I’ll be dropping into Milkwood inworld, which has been the SL home for NaNoWriMo for the last few years now (say Hi if you see me there). Proprietress Harriet Gausman runs daily events there for eager writers keen to get away from writing their novel in a…