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.
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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 ร Plusieurs, the Musical.
How? I askedย 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?๐๐คฃ๐ฅด (And yes, I count these words!)
I do more chart reading and math in November than any other time of the year. (Yes, I met my goal for today. Time to sleep!)
I only have 27,016. I still need 300 before I can go to bed. Yikes! See ya’ll later.
To find words.
My Grape Baby by Laura Bradbury
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m sad that this is the end of the series, as far as I know. It has been fun to watch Laura in her college years, meeting and marrying Franck. I loved meeting her Canadian family and Franck’s French family. There is a bit of a feeling of traveling and living somewhere other than here.
In previous books, we met Laura and Franck’s first two babies. We enjoyed watching them flip a couple of homes and a wine cellar. And we read about food and wine, a lot of wine. The real estate and food I can do without, but in this book, it gets personal. And may I, without giving spoilers, warn you to have Kleenex nearby.
I wish Laura and her family all the best. Enjoy these books if you get the chance.
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.
Laugh and Be Happy
Welcome to last night’s earworm (click the link in the caption– I couldn’t get it to embed.)
Darswords 
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