I’ve reconsidered how I’m going to handle Nanowrimo. I’ve decided instead of trying to do huge blorts on the weekends, what I’m going to do is rewrite a chapter of US a day, and then if there’s any writing brain left over, I’ll work on the Nanowrimo novel. If it doesn’t get done, it doesn’t get done, although really, 1700wpd shouldn’t be that rough. I think. :)

Deirdre signed up for NaNoWriMo! Eehehehehe!

Okay, so this is my thought about NaNoWriMo. Finishing the rewrites on Urban Shaman is *way* higher in priority, particularly as I’m not doing NaNoWriMo for the purposes of Writing A Novel. I’ve done that several times. The purpose of me doing NaNoWriMo is to enter a contest which closes on Dec. 31; if I succeed in that, I’ll be delighted. If I don’t, I’m not going to be crushed. I’d *like* to, but I’ve *got* to finish the US rewrites. So this is my plan: I’m going to work…

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I took some pictures of the pumpkin I carved! The only problem is the photos didn’t show that the ear made a light-shadow on the wall beyond it, which looks preeeeeetttttty darned cool. Anyway, Happy Halloween!

I’ve discovered it’s a lot more fun to carve pumpkins when it’s Mommy or Daddy who do the hard work of scraping all the pumpkin innards out first. :)