I’m up to 5,648 words so far. I’ve finished one chapter and started the next one. I was hoping to get to 6,000, but I’m functioning on 5.5 hours of sleep, so there ya go. I am trying desperately not to think about how awful and boring what I’m writing is. I’m just trying to…

When I was a tween and through my teenage years, I was perfectly content to spend long periods of time alone. Some of my strongest memories involve me sitting by myself reading a book or writing. In fact, when I went on vacation with my family, I was often referred to as “The Mole” because…

One thing about writing a novel, you tend live in the novel world quite a bit. Without the radio, I’m thinking about plot and character on the way to work, writing little scenes in my head. At 2079 words (yay!), I’m not really to the good part yet. I can’t wait. I think I’m going…

Jody, at Raising WEG, has a great post about the disconnect between her memory of her childhood and her mother’s memory of it, and worries that that same disconnect will happen with her own children. I worry about this pretty constantly myself. I have been known to do a reality check and ask my kids…

Office Halloween Party–done!Trick or Treating–done!Laundry–done!1984–done!At the stroke of midnight, begin writing novel for NaNoWriMo–T minus 70 minutes. Yes, I’m actually looking forward to staying up late enough to begin at the first possible moment. I’m truly geeky. nanowrimo Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure