A Million Words

I was just looking at Sherry's blog in which she shares the following tip: "Clean up your desk." It reminded me that I do not have  a desk at the moment. Our apartment is small and frequently over-populated.  My files are in boxes in closets and my current writing projects are mostly tucked into folders on the living room bookshel ves.  In October when I was working on four different projects and doing a lot of revision the lack of a desk was driving me crazy.  I wanted to convert the "spare" room into a study/nursery so I could have a fixed place to work and spread out my charts and marked up pages.   October passed and no room-re-arranging happened. Now it's November and I just finished day 9 of NaNoWriMo. Things have changed.  All I'm doing is writing -- adding words to a single document. I hardly even check my plot notes or the minimal research I've done.  Not having a desk is a distinct advantage at this stage of writing.   16k and counting!

Mike has been after me for months to make Nova a Cthulu costume, and last night it finally came together.  Mike made the wings, and I frankensteined the rest together from a cheap pair of boy's pajamas.  Here she is:  

I am signing up for the annual insanity of NNWM, National Novel Writing Month, a pledge to churn out 50,000 words by the end of the month. I got up at 6:30 this morning, and it was near 7:30 by the time I had the document open on my computer.  At 8:15, when Nova woke up, I'd only written about 500 words.  If she takes a nap today, I might be able to do another thousand, but I'm not optimistic.  Still, I'm looking forward to it in a sick sort of way. I'm planning to write a regency romance and take a break from my never-ending fantasy series.  We'll see how it goes.