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The happiest of birthdays to @Melrick, and hoping this year brings nothing but good things for you!    

Our dauschund is so proud of his wolfie provider prowess: he caught and killed a mouse!

Our dauschund is so proud of his wolfie provider prowess: he caught and killed a mouse!

Our dauschund is so proud of his wolfie provider prowess: he caught and killed a mouse!

I must be sick, I haven’t written for a week and even stopped reading...

I must be sick, I haven’t written for a week and even stopped reading...

Roofers finally making noise overhead.  It took NINE months minus a week for the insurance to stop dragging their feet and low-balling ripped roof deck and hail damage.  The first month it poured in, later it ‘only’ dripped.
Maybe we’ll all stop having problems sleeping.

skin of teeth: 50,337 words.  not bad as I lost several days to toothache and attempted dentist run. (and missing health aides for family at least half the month)
I will say i don’t like that the competitive widgets on the Nano pages are gone as that helps motivation.  Forums really don’t help with wordcount any more than physical write-ins.  They pull me out of the stories I wanted to tell.
Last year’s story collection became a new one which may result in nearly 20 stories.  I’d hoped to do more originals, but originals require more energy and focus than I had spoons for.  I’ll be revising after my hospital stay starting tomorrow… (uggh cubed)

17104, not as good a day, butu I usually have a three or four day cycle during Nano.
I kind of miss the widgets, it takes too many clicks to check on a writing buddy’s progress and compete...

Happy about a SW RotS fic for Nano.  Here’s what I’m proud of today: (see if you can guess the other inspiration)
Polli went to help Mirran. The stairs up must be blocked, let the attackers think they were hoping for air rescue. Carting furniture with service droids and the Force clogged the old wide spiral stairs, pulling out or destroying the lynchpins would not solve tons of equipment falling.
Enthan arrived at the desert garden with a grin. “I got the emergency stairs into the Council chamber. Like a ton of compressed fire suppressant foam will expand to cut off air in the shaft. They’ll need days to cut out and remove it if they think to find anyone there running defenses.”
Polli asked her friends, all sweaty and sore, “What else do we have that’s heavy but easy to clog lift shafts?”
“Water or sand from the gardens. I need help finishing the poppers. If we can break the electronics in their armor… it won’t help against the Sith, but he must be a coward to bring an army against the injured and younglings...” Kotton was finally showing anger too. “They have not left, lethalities are necessary now. Can we handle that?”
Polli blinked, this was opposite why she worked so hard to become a Padawan. The Living Force made her weep with interconnected joy in deep meditations. She wasn’t really for the field, but the harsh balance of healing. Every hour they distracted the clones was that many fugitives who might get away. “To save a life, we kill the cancer.”
Adus and Mirran nodded in synch, while Enthan spoke darkly, “We won’t have to handle it long, a few days at most.”

R.I.P Alex Trebek! 

Usual slow start for NaNo: blaming insurance stonewalling, politics, and agencies’ incompetence! 5779 (1k behind)  they don’t seem to have the widgits anymore
 

Next year, I really need to create a trick-or-treater bingo card. Items would include
at least 3 girls dressed as Elsa at least 5 boys dressed as Batman a whole family in themed costumes a mom wearing a decidedly inappropriate costume while escorting her kids around (This year’s was a slutty cop.)

25k a day early, yay! 

25k a day early, yay! 

Struggling with a chapter since March, RL and block, not unreated.  I finally *gasp* wrote out most of an outline, that’s how stuck I was.
And nasty paperwork too.

My mind just boggled when the tags for the first chapter of a mashup story elsewhere was seven hundred words longer than the chapter.
LSS, I decided not to read it as there were dozens of chars and worlds I don’t know nuttin about. The big mashups I’ve tried don’t give enough background and the more famous ones are ooc enough I begin to feel they were included more like clickbait.  I already have five stories pending to read for a while, no more.

My mind just boggled when the tags for the first chapter of a mashup story elsewhere was seven hundred words longer than the chapter.
LSS, I decided not to read it as there were dozens of chars and worlds I don’t know nuttin about. The big mashups I’ve tried don’t give enough background and the more famous ones are ooc enough I begin to feel they were included more like clickbait.  I already have five stories pending to read for a while, no more.

Frustration (noun) When your first chapter in months after block really hit, has to be totally rewritten because you switched from 3rd person to 1st.

Happy NewYear!
Hope yours goes better than the poor schlubs who made the float in Pasedena that broke down and prevented the end of the parade…

Happy NewYear!
Hope yours goes better than the poor schlubs who made the float in Pasedena that broke down and prevented the end of the parade…

Holiday cold whapping me about the head… earlier than some years.  Can I rent new sinuses?

Holiday cold whapping me about the head… earlier than some years.  Can I rent new sinuses?

Nothing starts your day off much better than a warm and fuzzy review of a story that has been out for a while and that the reader gets the core concept...

Nothing starts your day off much better than a warm and fuzzy review of a story that has been out for a while and that the reader gets the core concept...