What Week Two slump?

Traditionally, week two of NaNoWriMo is where it all goes downhill.  Plots fail, word counts flounder, characters flail uselessly.  Week Two is where it gets "interesting". Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Mal: Define "interesting" Wash: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're

First Frost

Scraped ice off my car this morning, and there was a snow flurry over the weekend.  It must be winter.  This happens every year, and it's always a surprise.  Got a new pair of leather gloves at the weekend, dug my roll-brim Rowan Coccoon hat out of

Shuffled off

"To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream:

Injustice in 1605?

BBC News: Free the Gunpowder Plot One. Was one of the Gunpowder Plotters an innocent victim of circumstance? As effigies of Guy Fawkes again go up in flames, is it time to rectify a 400-year-old miscarriage of justice? After the failed attempt to blow up Parliament in November

T plus four

The NaNoWriMo website suffered its usual overload and spent much of the last few days lying on its back twitching.  My body count so far is three bandits and a lynx, Hubby killed off three drunk Norwegians on day 2, so we're tied.  Came into work on Monday

T minus one

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow! Hubby and I will be at the St Charles write-in at the Crooked Tree Coffee House on First Capitol Drive. The St Louis region on NaNoWriMo has officially challenged Columbia, MO, Manchester, England and the entire country of Wales to a Word War. Last year we

T minus three

I have a plot!  And a cast of characters!  I finally feel like I might be ready for NaNoWriMo 2008.  There is a nice circular "finish where you started" thread going through the story, and my minor characters have definite things to do that advance the plot.  It&

T minus five

Went to the St Louis NaNoWriMo kick-off party on Saturday.  Hubby and I are so used to NaNo events taking place on Sunday, we woke up the next day convinced we had to go back to work, and had a second Sunday this weekend.  Photos from the party are

T minus seven

I'm looking at November with a tinge of panic.  My 2008 NaNoWriMo plot isn't as fleshed out as I like, I have only vague idea of how my good guy is going to defeat the bad guy.  There are some cool ideas but I need research

Cormo and Targhee

I'm still spinning Cormo, though I set the wheel back to the slowest ratio.  There's about 2oz left to go before Navajo plying, which should probably be attacked on a relaxed Friday afternoon with a glass of Bailey's for good measure.  Slowing down the