Packing for summer Camp (NaNo)! Now, where's that house-elf?

Hello again! As we approach the month of July, I will be using the next five days to prepare for one of my favourite writing challenges of the year: Camp NaNoWriMo. Although this means that I won’t be focusing on my Becoming a Fantasy ‘Expert’ journey via research and reading, etc., I will be working on my writing which favours fantasy and speculative genres. My progress on becoming an expert will continue in August. If you are unfamiliar with Camp NaNoWriMo - or its parent, NaNoWriMo - you can find out more here: https://nanowrimo.org/ In short, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and is a virtual yearly challenge set in November that asks writers to write 50,000 words (the minimum word count for a novel) within the month. The Camps, set in April and July (also virtual), last a month as well, but they allow participating writers to choose their own word count goal to achieve during the challenge. As well as a writing challenge, the NaNoWriMo website also acts as an on