NaNoWriMo: Day 14 -- 25K is in sight!!

23,428 / 50,000 (46.9%)

And hopefully by tomorrow night, I will have reached it. I may or may not take Monday night off to work on creating a new character and get the all important intro dialogue jotted down to be added to my narrative.

In other news: the three of us went to our town's high school production of "You Can't Take It With You", a hysterical comedy which I have been dying to see live; as my dad said, at the end of the first act: "It's like a typical night at our house". The kids were a bit uneven in terms of quality of acting, but their Penny utterly *WAS* the character, which more than compensated.

Thanksgiving week, for a couple of days at the end of the week, I may be house and cat-sitting for my dad's friend "Dale", since he and his family are spending the week with relatives in Florida. I'll be using the time, no doubt, to catch up on my NaNo novel, since I *KNOW* I am going to lose time Thanksgiving week...

Also did a little clothing shopping at Wal-Mart: winter is upon us and I decided it was time that I bought a few more flannel shirts for work, also a pair of black fleece gloves to replace my favorite pair of mittens that I lost last winter, a couple of long sleeved tee shirts, a tee shirt with a spooky-looking grim reaper design... and a marked-down Hallowe'en costume sword that I may or may not use to teach myself the tai chi sword form.

And last but not least, I bought Richelle Mead's "Shadow Kiss"... in time to hear an item on the TV news about tweenaged girls mobbing the box office in Kenmore Square to buy tickets to... a Certain Vampire Movie.

NaNoWriMo Day 15: Halfway through!!!

25,569 / 50,000 (51.1%)

The previous time I tried the NaNo challenge, I didn't even get this far, so this is giving me a good boost of confidence! Granted, most of the work today was transcribing mission details, etc. but I made some major progress into the getting the meat of the storyline in, now I just need to tweak it and put my own slant on it.