Why I did NaNoWriMo and why I’d do it again

I have been trying to get back into writing regularly for some time. When I got pregnant with my son last year, I lost interest in writing. I will not go into all the reasons why here, but I ended up losing track of my writing goals, my purpose, and my writing achievements (however small [...]

F is for Fort Wayne

When I was 18, I returned to college in Indiana with my good friend Pete after the winter holidays. We followed an itinerary that neither began where we started nor ended where we were going.
I’d booked us tickets on an Amtrak train that departed from Union Station in Washington, D.C., and my mom grumbled about [...]

More than halfway there.

Except, um, I’m not.
Here’s the rundown:
Today’s date: November 18.
Number of words I am supposed to have as of today: 30,000.
Number of words I actually have: 20,783.
Number of days left in National Novel Writing Month: 12, including today.
Approximate number of words I need to write per day in order to hit 50K in the next 12 [...]

11 days in.

Wow, so writing a novel in a month really gets in the way of … writing. On the blog, anyway. I would like to say I’m just motoring along with the novel and am right on track, but alas, I am not. I’m a good 4,000 words (5,000? I’ve lost track!) behind. I’m not really [...]

Whew.

I wrote for nearly five hours today. It’s been a long, long time since I wrote that much in one day, and I’m feeling it.
When I run, particularly if I haven’t run in a long time, it’s the same kind of feeling. The first five minutes or so are OK… maybe I’m a little off [...]

Tuesday tidbits

1. Today is election day. It’s one of those quiet election days, in which we in San Francisco vote on whether to have money become available for this or that, and the candidates running for various offices are all running unopposed. When Aaron wakes up from his nap, I’ll walk him to my local polling [...]