50,016 words. And an actual ‘The End’
It was fun learning about Folie à Plusieurs, dreams, and the adventures of a mermaid, a melusine, and a selkie.
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Look around. Gather them up. I need every single crumb. Those words are important. Golden.
(As of this moment, I need 2,653 to get to 50,000)
Back to work!
Only three more days of NaNo. I need 1,200 words tonight to be on track. It has been such an ordeal this time. It has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I’ll be glad to see December!
I’m trying to learn a couple Christmas songs. I’ve always wanted to play Lucy and Linus and now I’m also challenged by the song in Polar Express
I pulled out all the Christmas songs to play with.
The only knitting making progress are my experimental slipper socks.
No finishing here. Just cuties.
Well, back to work. Words to go before I sleep…
To those who celebrate: Happy Thanksgiving (Happy Thursday to the rest of the world!)
Linda just published another book! Congratulations! And this is one of her prompts
There was a time when our home was full of love with our set of black-and-white dog, Kali, black cat, Rosey, and orange tabby, Teddy. They grew old and passed, leaving our home so empty for so long!
Through some wonderful magic in our lives, we have a full house of love again. Black-and-white dog Milo (formerly ‘Crunchy’), black cat, Shiloh, and our orange tabby, Sammie. It is the oddest thing, even now, that the combination of pets came just that way. We still mess up names and genders. Every parent knows how easy it is to call the wrong name of the naughty kid or when in an emergency moment hits. Most of the time, the kids don’t look the same. Autocorrecting the brain can save it. But if your kids all look alike (Italian, dark hair and eyes), it’s even harder. So I should be used to it. But this team of pets is uncanny!
I don’t want to go searching for the old team pictures (I need to write 2,000 words today–this distraction I can avoid), but here’s the latest of the ‘ILO’ team
And here’s Sammie from the other day. I like the picture so much that I need to see them again.
But this was just this morning. With temps being in the teens, I love the BTU of pets.
My life is full.
On the other hand, on November 1st, my yWriter app was empty. On November 30th, it should be full. I should be at 36,674 words. I only have 33,172. TrackBear says I should write 1,893 a day to reach the 50k by the end of November. But that is a lot. 1,667 is a lot. If I can push it today and for a few days, I might bring this project to something doable. Wish me luck! I need to bring this story to its full and proper ending. Let’s hope the brain isn’t empty!
The start of the day it was 12 degrees. The freezing fog gave us a snowy effect.
But NaNoWriMo is taking all my energy and time and still I’m behind.
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!)
Popping around to play NaNo Avoidance. It’s a game I play every year. The only rule is to do anything but write on the current project. I try to baby that child, giving in here and there but imposing tiny rules of my own. Just 333 words in an hour several times a day still brings that daily tally
But I’m not the only one popping around.
Sammy played Pop Goes the Kitty to distract me:
He’s way too big for the kitty tree now but he manages to play in it with Shiloh sleeping on the top nest.
Gives me an idea for my next avoidance trick.
For the knitting, I’ll just use last week’s pic as I’ve done very little knitting.
A friend sent this to me. It has already helped.
I hope it helps you, too.
Darswords 
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