Sam Redlark

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Throughout November, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, where the aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. As I am treating this as a writing exercise, anything that I produce will be posted on this blog, one chapter a time. The text will have been edited for spelling and coherence but is otherwise a rough first draft, written at speed. There will be no second draft. ~ The Benefactor Index By Sam Redlark Prologue - A Sin of Gold Chapter One - Pochka Chapter Two - An arrow made of eagle feathers Chapter Three - The milking of chickens Chapter Four - Street without drums Chapter Five - Swans to the snow Chapter Six - Further from the eye Chapter Seven - The nephew of vodka Chapter Eight - The mayor of sidings Chapter Nine - The enemy of the good Chapter Ten - If even just one is absent Chapter Eleven - The friend of an unlucky man Chapter Twelve - The riches that are in the heart Chapter Thirteen - What fell off the cart Epilogue - New-forgotten old ~ Epilogu

Throughout November, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, where the aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. As I am treating this as a writing exercise, anything that I produce will be posted on this blog, one chapter a time. The text will have been edited for spelling and coherence but is otherwise a rough first draft, written at speed. There will be no second draft. ~ The Benefactor Index By Sam Redlark Prologue - A Sin of Gold Chapter One - Pochka Chapter Two - An arrow made of eagle feathers Chapter Three - The milking of chickens Chapter Four - Street without drums Chapter Five - Swans to the snow Chapter Six - Further from the eye Chapter Seven - The nephew of vodka Chapter Eight - The mayor of sidings Chapter Nine - The enemy of the good Chapter Ten - If even just one is absent Chapter Eleven - The friend of an unlucky man Chapter Twelve - The riches that are in the heart Chapter Thirteen - What fell off the cart Epilogue - New-forgotten old ~ Chapter

 Throughout November, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, where the aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. As I am treating this as a writing exercise, anything that I produce will be posted on this blog, one chapter a time. The text will have been edited for spelling and coherence but is otherwise a rough first draft, written at speed. There will be no second draft. ~ The Benefactor Index By Sam Redlark Prologue - A Sin of Gold Chapter One - Pochka Chapter Two - An arrow made of eagle feathers Chapter Three - The milking of chickens Chapter Four - Street without drums Chapter Five - Swans to the snow Chapter Six - Further from the eye Chapter Seven - The nephew of vodka Chapter Eight - The mayor of sidings Chapter Nine - The enemy of the good Chapter Ten - If even just one is absent Chapter Eleven - The friend of an unlucky man Chapter Twelve - The riches that are in the heart Chapter Thirteen - What fell off the cart Epilogue - New-forgotten old ~ Chapte