"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort ( Read more... )

I just got back from my first write-in with the upper-Seattle NaNo group. Boy, are they awesome. We met at Denny's in Ballard at midnight talked plots, and titled and laughed. Then we got to work. In a little over an hour nearly everyone with a computer had written over 1000 words, and the ones without weren't that far behind. This was all in the ( Read more... )

"The trouble with marriage is that men want to give you the world, but it has to be the world they want to give you. And what of the other worlds outside the window? Do you know what I mean? The things he does are fun to do, and I love doing them with him, and you can't have a marriage without that. But suppose then I find that they keep me from ( Read more... )