I don’t usually include non-book word counts here, but I had someone ask if maybe I might want to write a 1,000-1,500 word essay about my grandfather in World War II. And I said, Sure, why not? and started poking around to figure out how I might write it. And then I got the bit in my teeth and cranked out a 1,480-word rough draft.

Seriously, I don’t know if they really want this, but—whoo!