Submitted. I waited until the last minute, headed to the beach after work, forgetting there is a high wind warning with wind gusts 50 to 60 miles an hour here in the Pacific Northwest. Sat near the window and watched the lounge chairs take a swim in the pool. It was quite inspirational. Thank you, Pigfender, for putting this together!
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My pleasure!
Sounds like quite some weather you’re having. Hope everyone is okay!
For those keeping count, we are now at 21 submitted stories, for a total of 36,670 words!
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This is close to enough for two of us. I know that there’s a red eye plane ticket’s value sitting there.
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We are going to have to come and see you soon – and not just for the rum collection!
I should point out that so far not a single one of the 36,670 words are by me. 
Although, I now have my story worked out! Hooray!
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I’ve found an ending, and written it down! I’m at 2991 words!
Mind you, there’s something missing in the middle but that’s ok, there were never 3000 words written that couldn’t benefit from a healthy trim to make room for the missing bit. Maybe I’ll make this yet!
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I am at 4 words!
I am mostly happy with 3 of them!
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Submitted! 3001 words, but that includes a few ###, and they don’t count. 
Thank you, Pigfender, for doing this event! It was a lot of fun, and dragged me out of my comfort zone. 
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Your official “in Scrivener” word count is 2,982 so you’ve got room to spare!
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Okay, I am now at 193 words and starting to question what idiot came up with the idea of a 3,000 word limit!!!
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I only just realized that this is a reverse-NIAD — where intrepid (“chapter”) authors spend a whole leisurely month preparing their stories and then the man himself, the pigfinder (his real name), has to write his bit in just 24 hours.
It’s payback time!!!
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Yay! I’ve finished it. After so much procrastination, I decided to stick with the last plot I started and have even written an ending. The End - two words that I rarely write!
I’ll leave it till tomorrow to submit, just to make sure it’s okay.
Thank you so much for organising this event. It’s been fun. I’ve never written a ghost story before and it’s an interesting genre. The story ended up being quite Gothic really.
Something I’ve learned from the NIAD experience is the value of having a deadline so that I actually finish something. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be written.
Oh, and one of my inspirations was Shakespeare, which you might realise when you read it, or maybe not… 
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Oh dear… the deadline approaches.
You’ve got nearly a whole day left!
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It’s the ‘nearly’ I’m worried about. 
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I’m now up to 1,281 words, and am about a third of the way in. Both my typing speed and word efficiency need to take a bit of a boost, but that’s okay. Editing will be my friend.
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The clocks have just gone back, so we get an extra hour for tweaks.
Hip hip! Hooray!
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I am at 4 words!
I am mostly happy with 3 of them!
But do you know what order they belong in James?
I’m now up to 1,281 words, and am about a third of the way in.
Oh good!! You are not haunted by the ghost of the Joyce.
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I’m 700 words in of my initial 1,500 words estimate (haha). Entering now panic mode because I’m not normally this productive and I fear a grinding halt is coming.
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Also, in my “I’ll do anything to procrastinate and not have to put the idea into actual words” frame of mind, I’ve installed a program to make the keyboard of my MacBook sound like an old typewriter. Probably the stupidest piece of software ever — but damn if I’m not loving it.
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Okay, well that sounds like just the sort of thing I need in my life!!! Can you send me a link?!