Yesterday was a snow day. I think it dumped something like 6-8" on us, maybe? Hard to say - the bottom layer was melting and refreezing into ice while the snow was still falling. ARGH ( Read more... )

For the last month I've been taking part in the brigits_flame monthly competition. There's a prompt every week, for which you write something (original, preferably self contained, 1000 words or so) and you advance to the next week via an elimination poll voted on by the community members ( Read more... )

Nanowrimo? PFFFFT. No thanks, my track record there is 0 for lots and lots of ZERO. I have, instead, been part of something called SeasonWrite all year long - 150,000 words in four months, rounds running spring, summer and autumn. And while I haven't ever made count there either I *have* wracked up 116,500 written words total for this year. This? ( Read more... )