I mentioned yesterday how NaNoWriMo seems the time for math and charts. Everyone knows to reach 50,000 words in 30 days, you write 1,667 words a day. But get ahead or behind, one must ‘math’ it out.

I use tons of junk mail envelopes and other scrap paper figuring out how to get to goals hourly, daily, weekly. When the brain needs to make sure it’s right, pull out the calculator. As if ‘adds’, ‘subtracts’, ‘timesies’, ‘dividing’, and ratios, and “Hey, look a prime!” aren’t enough. Then I run over to TrackBear and many times a day update my latest word count to find out if I ‘bear down’ can I reach my goal? And they offer a cool chart to prove it.

This year (and this is subject to change at any minute) cooking and housework call my attention that I normally seem to ignore.

But naps and dream times bring my characters alive or bring questions.

This morning I woke to the title of this post. Folie à Plusieurs, the Musical.

How? I asked  the muses, mermaids can’t sing or dance except in cartoons. ADHD mind now sings, “Look at this stuff….” And tightening the lasso on the muse I bring back the line of questions.

Are there animals with gills and lungs? Do any of those animals make noise? Who can do the tap dance?

This story started with males I was sure were going to be the antagonists. Nope, not so much. The next three a mermaid, a selkie, a melusine, the two tail finned mermaid ala Starbucks.

The problem with the mermaid, um, hard to run to safety on land if even a tear of moisture creates said tail fin.

Selkies are rather pretty, though noisy, seals. Maybe a pad around on stage but singing voice needs help.

The melusine can move around due to the two tail fins and wings. But she’s too powerful for stage.

Then comes the never ending research. I hope you can see the Tubes I found. They aren’t showing up on this writing page. If not maybe research the fishy questions above. Eye opening! The little fish can supply the tap dancing sounds. The other voices plus a whale or two may supply tunes. Musical? Maybe?😂🤣🥴 (And yes, I count these words!)