I did it and it was fairly painless. I live in a very conservative area. My neighbor across the street just put up his McCain yard sign yesterday. And up at the school where we vote, there were McCain/Palin signs at the drive. There weren't any Obama signs anywhere, but that's okay. I put my vote in for him anyway.
My 6th grader came home yesterday and said his friends didn't want Obama to win because he is a Muslim. I had to explain to him that his friends were wrong and that Obama is not a Muslim, but a Christian. It is frightening how kids will parrot the beliefs of their parents and grandparents and defend those beliefs simply because they are held by family. But then, they are kids. I'm hoping they will outgrow that.
Obama is not Muslim and is not a socialist. Anyone who believes these lies is an idiot.
On the NanoWriMo front, I am not at 6,000 words. I'll try to reach 8,000 today, though I'm feeling really tired and icky.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
My NanoWriMo Novel So Far
This is probably the strangest bit I've ever written...and the most fun. The title at the moment is YOUNG AT DEATH, but it may change.
Our protagonist is sixteen-year-old Anwyn, Annie to her friends. Her father dead and abandoned by her mother, she lives with her violent and alcoholic Aunt Ethel and her perverted Uncle James. She learns that her best and only friend, Cathy, is moving to Australia. When cornered by her Uncle, she stabs herself in the throat with a pair of scissors in an attempt to end her pain and to cause him pain. However, she didn't think things through and now she is in a worse place than ever.
Accompanied by her pet rat, Oreo, whom she can now understand, she wanders through Limbo while waiting for her comatose body to either recover or die. Limbo happens to be the hospital. So far she has met an angel whom she asked for help and was told that helping her was not his area. And she has met David whose body is in a coma from a drug overdose.
David is suspicious and fearful at first, but not wanting to be alone, he follows her and they become friends. They discover that they cannot leave the building and decide to explore the hospital. They end up on the pediatrics floor where they meet a little girl with a teddy bear. David inquires about the bear's name and the little girl tells him the bear's name is Jaws. David finds this funny, but not for long. The little girl puts the bear down on the floor and it changes into a demonic grizzly that tries to eat them. Their fear snaps them back to their bodies and they meet up again. They reason that the little girl is not a little girl at all, but a demon and that the children on the floor are in danger. So, they have hatched a plan to find another angel and tell it about the demon, hoping that the angel will take care of it.
And that is where we are so far. A lot has happened in just 4,000 words, eh?
Our protagonist is sixteen-year-old Anwyn, Annie to her friends. Her father dead and abandoned by her mother, she lives with her violent and alcoholic Aunt Ethel and her perverted Uncle James. She learns that her best and only friend, Cathy, is moving to Australia. When cornered by her Uncle, she stabs herself in the throat with a pair of scissors in an attempt to end her pain and to cause him pain. However, she didn't think things through and now she is in a worse place than ever.
Accompanied by her pet rat, Oreo, whom she can now understand, she wanders through Limbo while waiting for her comatose body to either recover or die. Limbo happens to be the hospital. So far she has met an angel whom she asked for help and was told that helping her was not his area. And she has met David whose body is in a coma from a drug overdose.
David is suspicious and fearful at first, but not wanting to be alone, he follows her and they become friends. They discover that they cannot leave the building and decide to explore the hospital. They end up on the pediatrics floor where they meet a little girl with a teddy bear. David inquires about the bear's name and the little girl tells him the bear's name is Jaws. David finds this funny, but not for long. The little girl puts the bear down on the floor and it changes into a demonic grizzly that tries to eat them. Their fear snaps them back to their bodies and they meet up again. They reason that the little girl is not a little girl at all, but a demon and that the children on the floor are in danger. So, they have hatched a plan to find another angel and tell it about the demon, hoping that the angel will take care of it.
And that is where we are so far. A lot has happened in just 4,000 words, eh?
NanoWriMo
For those of you who do not know, NanoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month, an insane endeavor crazy people undertake every November 1. Participants have until the last day of November to write a novel of 50,000 words. Now, 50,000 words does not a novel make in the real world, more like a novella, but it is a good goal.
If you write 1,666 words a day, every single day, you will reach your goal easy. But my experience has been that it is impossible to do this. Something will always keep you from writing every single day, whether it be the flu or the evil God of procrastination. So far, I'm doing great.
I have 4,000 words at the moment and my goal is to reach 6,000 today. I'm not sure what I will have at the end will make a whole lot of sense, but hey, I'm doing it anyway.
If you are doing NanoWriMo 2008, drop me a line and let me know how you're doing!
If you write 1,666 words a day, every single day, you will reach your goal easy. But my experience has been that it is impossible to do this. Something will always keep you from writing every single day, whether it be the flu or the evil God of procrastination. So far, I'm doing great.
I have 4,000 words at the moment and my goal is to reach 6,000 today. I'm not sure what I will have at the end will make a whole lot of sense, but hey, I'm doing it anyway.
If you are doing NanoWriMo 2008, drop me a line and let me know how you're doing!
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