It's Just Around The Corner

Sharpen those typewriter keys, add some new ribbon, dust off the laptop keyboard, polish the screen, stock up on all the junk food you try to avoid the rest of the year.
NaNoWriMo

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH
BEGINS AT 12:00 A.M. ON NOVEMBER 1ST!


Those in London, England will get to hear Big Ben kicking it off in their nation. 

To the NaNoWriMos worldwide, have you set the alarm on your phone? 

Here it will sound something like this, when the neighbors' roosters sound off. 


Typing and Fact-Checking

Twelve hours. A few thousand words. Rereading pages and pages of notes. Checking web links.

That is only part of what it takes to produce a chapter of text for a book these days. Well, it takes more than twelve hours sometimes.

Those twelve hours yesterday brought me a chapter and a half closer to finishing. But, I felt like my brain had been stepped on repeatedly by the time I put my head on the pillow to rest.