My name is Andy- I'm from Ireland. My novel concept is currently entitled "Errant". It is an Irish folk horror novel about a small town that reckons with the sudden re-appearance of a young man that went missing years prior.This will be my first time seriously attempting this challenge. I have written a 25K word children's book before, and that took several months, so we'll see how much I manage in a month. I doubt it will be 1K words a day, never mind 1.5K. I've been exploring frameworks that are more appropriate for horror, as the old faithful 'Hero's Journey' doesn't quite fit. I am looking into Noël Carroll's 'Horror Cycle' and the “Descent–Confrontation–Revelation” Model, and might mix the two. Anyone else know about frameworks that could work for this kind of horror? Does this forum have a dark mode? Would make browsing it for longer bouts easier on the eyes. Looking forward to getting started.

It does not have a dark mode. Adding it to the to-do list now 😜

The forum now has dark mode. I am very much not a designer, and I have even less experience designing for dark mode, but hopefully it's a little easier on the eyes now. As an aside, I've never really found the hero's journey very helpful. I don't know if writing to fit a structure just doesn't work for me, or if I just need to find one that is more fitting to the way I think. The novel I'm planning has some similarities to horror (although I can't make it to scary without freaking myself out and having to stop 😂) so I might take a deeper look into the descent-confrontation-revalation model. At first glance it definitely resonates with some things I'd noticed but didn't have a name for.

It's perfectly functional, thanks :) just needed something to be easier on the eyes for this month ahead. I'm using OneDrive's Microsoft Word for the challenge for this very reason, unbelievably Google Docs still doesn't have dark mode.