Writing Quote

No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!

-- Finding Forester

Democracy in the morning

I got to my polling place around 8am yesterday and by 8:35 I was done. The little room was packed, but we were very nicely herded by the election judges. The electronic voting booth varied from all the ones I've used in the past and I've used everything from punching the chad, to a hand ballot, to three or four different kinds of electronic voting booths - I like to keep my hand in, ready to vote in any manner presented. Haven't yet voted absentee, but haven't really had the need. I particularly like going down with all the other registered voters and feeling a sense of community, a sense that my vote is part of the whole vote, that we all come together for this special event, this sacred duty.

Ok, must be off to work, so I will leave off with the ramblings and get you back to your regularly scheduled November Insanity. Oh, wait, that's MY regularly scheduled November Insanity. Not doing so well, but writing every day. Story is in a weird place but then again, week two is starting, and gosh golly if it's not going to get harder.

Best of luck to all my fellow nanoers. Keep on writing!

Welcome to the Insanity

NaNoWriMo officially started this morning at midnight. I was snug in my bed with a touch of cold that blossomed into a bit of a cough and fever this morning. Auspicious beginning this is not, but I shall perservere! Even if I can no longer spell correctly.

Welcome to November, the month of insanity and mayhem in the writing circles I run in.

I can't remember, do blog posts count as word count?

Best of luck to all my writing buddies, GirlZoot, Ian, Sunrunner, Survivor, DaveToe, Iunones, and everyone else that my foggy brain has let slip.

Let's get writing!