NaNoWriMo

I write a lot at work. However (or maybe because of this) lately I have been having a really hard time writing for myself. So... just now I made the decision to sign up for the National Novel Writing Month and write a novel. In one month. For fun.

To start, I'm going to try to take the advice of the travel blog, Vagabonding, and somehow novelize my travel experiences.

Wish me luck!

shuttle launch over the lake

(this is not last night's launch, I missed that because of sleeping. this is one from earlier in the year)

me in brazil

this is a true story

 

So, I am watching this movie from the 70s on TV. It is about frogs and lizards and snakes that have decided they've had just about enough, and start swarming all over and killing rich folks.

I had just posted this twitter tweet about how these things were just not scary at all. The frogs were even kind of cute when they all hopped menacingly together. And lizards? Who could even be scared of lizards?

Then, I went to the kitchen to put away our leftovers from lunch and was digging through the cabinet for some tupperware when a lizard jumped up out of the back of the cabinet and onto a bowl, knocking me over. I screamed. Then he looked at me like, "tweet this, loser." And ran away.

And I sat there and laughed.

The end.

I can show you what is left.

American Book Review's 100 best first lines of novels I'm not sure any of these are my favorites.

h/t good magazine

sunshine and red balloons

 

for my friend azuree, hope it works!!

where the quote below came from

style is the answer to everything.
a fresh way to approach a dull or a dangerous thing.

to do a dull thing with style is preferable
to doing a dangerous thing without style.

to do a dangerous thing with style, is what I call art.

--from Style by Charles Bukowski

more info on the "The Poet Laureate of Skid Row" here.