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Archive for October 25th, 2007

I just did something totally off-the-wall. I have no earthly clue (but possibly a heavenly one) why I just did what I did. So, you ask, what did I do?

I created an account on NaNoWriMo. What’s that? It stands for National Novel Writing Month. What’s the big deal? NaNoWriMo is a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. The challenge starts at 12:01 a.m. on 11/1/07 and ends at 11:59 p.m. on 11/30/07. The reward – nothing other than being able to say that I wrote a novel in a month.

So, what’s my novel about? Don’t ask, because I don’t know! (Should I?)

Since I discovered the site earlier in the week, I’ve toyed with the idea and finally decided, why not? I have nothing to lose and everything to gain from it. I poked my nose into one of my writing books tonight and highlighted the most important line in the book …. God is in control of the outcome.

In the last few months, I’ve had a number of people tell me I should try writing a book. I believe God used those people to plant the seed in my heart for the day I found NaNoWriMo. Well, here goes….

And for all those of you who have told me to write – give me an idea for a book, please!!!!!! What would you like to read about? I have a leaning towards historical fiction because that’s my favorite genre. But, I also find contemporary books, particularly by Dee Henderson and Mindy S. Clark, to be intriguing and relevant too. Hmmmm…decisions. Somehow I think I’ll be making a lot of those in the near future.

I know I promised more photos of our beautiful autumn colors, but….. the rain has finally arrived. We’ve had almost 3 inches of rain in the last 3 days!!! Of course, all summer we whined, begged, pleaded, kicked, screamed and everything else under the sun for rain, but now that it’s here….it can leave. I don’t mind a rainy day every week or so especially if it prevents a drought. I do start to mind (mainly because I find gray skies highly depressing) three days of cold, damp, wet weather.

Wednesday we had to take a trip to Huntington, which is a little over 100 miles away, for a doctor’s appointment. Inevitably, just about every trip that we’ve made there (at least a dozen) has been in bad weather. In the winter, it was snow and ice including one trip that forced us to drive about 15 miles per hour on the interstate – not fun. Could we have nice weather on Wednesday to enjoy the fall leaves? Not a chance! It rained the entire 100 miles there and the 100 miles home. Yuck. It hasn’t rained like this since April (probably the same day we had another doctor’s appointment). After we were on the interstate for about 10 minutes, my husband commented about how much he wanted to complain about the rain and driving in it but he was too grateful for the rain and its benefits. I wonder if we’ll remember to be grateful again next time…