I have now won three times in my six attempts. I am tired of writing. Words hurt. What’s next? Permanently Shelved goes away for a month so that I can rehabilitate my right brain and enjoy the holidays. Then, since…
Thanksgiving and NaNoWriMo
Happy Post-Thanksgiving! We drove to Michigan to spend the holiday with WM’s clan. Twelve and a half hours there and thirteen and a half hours back. Deep fried turkey was eaten, and Max and Ollie got to play with their…
NaNoWriMo update!
We’re slightly over the half-way mark, cookie crumbs, and it looks like I’m still ahead of the game by barely a day’s worth of writing. I’ve yet to fall behind on my word count – a first for the six…
Wordless Wednesday: Lunchtime novelling
Stupid Beading Tricks: Earrings for Coworkers and Election Day woes.
Happy Election Day! We voted a little after 7am and then got coffee and a donut at Dunkin’ Donuts to celebrate. There was no line and we received no stickers. I have never received a sticker for voting. Eh, no…
Progress Report
Novel progressing horribly. I’m still completely confident I’ll finish by 11/30. Life progressing well. After almost 5 months, I’m starting to find my “normal” again. Starting to go back to doing some of the little things I used to do,…
NaNoWriMo update
(apologies to feedreader people…having WordPress issues for the first time EVER tonight.) Well gee whiz that election post was …fun … wasn’t it? Let’s get back to more…um…stupid things to talk about. NaNoWriMo update! My NaNoWriMo setup I cranked out…
Can't post…writing…
I have a plot. I have protagonists. I have a setting, 2 corpses, and even some motive! Now I just need to find coffee pods for my new good friend and I’ll be golden. Edited to add: I sketched out…
The answer
Why don’t people off themselves by age 75, depressed from watching people die? Because your kind authoress here forgot something quite important. Because we also watch people LIVE. Babies are born, kids grow, and we get to see the tired…
Letter to a brown canine
Dear Max: When I come home from work and I’m already wearing my sneakers, this means that I have been to Curves already. And I’ve exercised already. And I most likely am tired and sweaty and do NOT want to…
NaNo NoMo!
WINNER!!!! 30 days 136 pages 1,966 paragraphs 6,191 lines 50,117 words iI’ve accomplished nothing of this magnitude before. This story isn’t fantastic at all. But it’s my novel. And it’s done. And it’s my very own. And it’s going to…
KiMeNowPl
That means, “Kill Me Now, Please.” My NaNo novel is at 44097 words, and I can’t write any more tonight. I’ve written over 7600 words in the last two days, and to finish by midnight 11/30, I’ll have to do…
