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In some parts of the world, NaNoWriMo has already begun; most notably Finland, with whom we Sacramentans are AT WAR. They get a head start, but that means they finish (heh) first, and we get _hours_ to keep on writing while they watch our word count climb and are helpless to do anything but cry about it. Mwa ha ha.

Ahem. So I'm getting excited and have decided to attend the kickoff this evening/night/tomorrow morning, despite that the idea of writing in a ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE freaks me the heck out.

I have to interrupt this post to share some hilarity from Morgan. I just told her she could watch Noggin or a movie for an hour or so before we need to get ready to go to Trunk or Treat at our church.

"But, I thought we were going to houses," she pouts.

"We don't live in houses, baby; we'd have to drive somewhere to a neighborhood. So we might as well drive to church where there will be less walking and you'll get _more_ candy."

"No I won't, I'll get the same," she replies with infallible logic, which makes me laugh. "Mother, I'm _serious_." She puts her hands on her hips like I do, and Mom does, and even Grandma did, and I'm not sure about great-grandma but at this rate I'd be willing to lay odds, and I laugh even harder. Oh man, I love that little girl.

So, now that I can breathe again, where was I? Oh, the kickoff tonight. Yeah, scary stuff. But all the pep talks say to plug into some networking like this. I didn't do it last year, and though I don't think that had anything to do with my inability to hit 50k, I figure it can't hurt to try this time around. Also, since I don't own a laptop, when I leave the house I'll be writing in a notebook (which is a type of laptop, but I'm assuming you understand I mean the dead-tree kind here), and I've found it's easier to "just keep writing" when I have a pen in my hand because the time it takes me to write one word lets me think about the next one, whereas while typing I have to pause periodically 'cause my fingers can move faster than my brain (see previous post about typing speed and error rate). It's also easier not to hit the backspace button when there _is_ no backspace button. Huh, that should be on an icon or something.

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In some parts of the world, NaNoWriMo has already begun; most notably Finland, with whom we Sacramentans are AT WAR. They get a head start, but that means they finish (heh) first, and we get _hours_ to keep on writing while they watch our word count climb and are helpless to do anything but cry about it. Mwa ha ha.

Ahem. So I'm getting excited and have decided to attend the kickoff this evening/night/tomorrow morning, despite that the idea of writing in a ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE freaks me the heck out.

I have to interrupt this post to share some hilarity from Morgan. I just told her she could watch Noggin or a movie for an hour or so before we need to get ready to go to Trunk or Treat at our church.

"But, I thought we were going to houses," she pouts.

"We don't live in houses, baby; we'd have to drive somewhere to a neighborhood. So we might as well drive to church where there will be less walking and you'll get _more_ candy."

"No I won't, I'll get the same," she replies with infallible logic, which makes me laugh. "Mother, I'm _serious_." She puts her hands on her hips like I do, and Mom does, and even Grandma did, and I'm not sure about great-grandma but at this rate I'd be willing to lay odds, and I laugh even harder. Oh man, I love that little girl.

So, now that I can breathe again, where was I? Oh, the kickoff tonight. Yeah, scary stuff. But all the pep talks say to plug into some networking like this. I didn't do it last year, and though I don't think that had anything to do with my inability to hit 50k, I figure it can't hurt to try this time around. Also, since I don't own a laptop, when I leave the house I'll be writing in a notebook (which is a type of laptop, but I'm assuming you understand I mean the dead-tree kind here), and I've found it's easier to "just keep writing" when I have a pen in my hand because the time it takes me to write one word lets me think about the next one, whereas while typing I have to pause periodically 'cause my fingers can move faster than my brain (see previous post about typing speed and error rate). It's also easier not to hit the backspace button when there _is_ no backspace button. Huh, that should be on an icon or something.