You might have noticed the enormous jump on my NaNoWriMo ticker today. It’s because I cheated. It was either cheat or quit. And I know that cheaters never win, but neither do quitters. So, really, I wasn’t going to win either way. But this way I’ll at least get a nifty little badge that says I won. And that’s all that really matters.

But is it really cheating? You decide.

My characters are reciting Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems. They’re on a road trip, and that’s what everybody does on road trips. It was a perfectly natural progression. Right?