Dear flail,

Zombies are the new Vampires is a fantastic idea for a story. I've been trying to think of a good plot for something like that for a long, long time now.

Damn you for stealing it first.

You are a whore but I still love you,
♥
Jen

So I've been using an image linked by glassthorne on my desk top to help me keep track of my NaNo goals (as in, "Hey, I made it to the mark! I'm on track! I can go to bed!") because it has handy "YOU SHOULD BE HERE!" word counts on it. It's this one.

So I'm plunking along, writing words that are hard to write, and I minimize my browser for a moment (writing this in Google Docs so I can use multiple computers) to go do something else and I saw the quote for today.

"as per tradition, set something (in your novel) on fire today."

And I went: "Wait, I did that yesterday, but she only set herself on fire for reasons of Health."

And then I went: "The day before Phil got to use his Holy Flamethrower on Pig, so I've already set two things on fire."

And then I looked down, and I saw myself flying over a shark.

"Oh," I said.

Tomorrow's Writing Session will hopefully end in the following:

Phil's Holy Flamethrower of Righteousness: 2

Psychotically Evil Abomination That Should Not Be: 1

Andy's Pride: Bleeding

Joseph's Sanity: Last seen legging it up Fifth Ave in search of Starbucks.

I'm just... way too tired tonight to work on that. I am, however, caught up to where I should be, word-count-wise, to finish "on time" so I haven't fallen behind. I'm mostly disappointed because I was BUBBLING with ideas at work and then I came home and literally pulled tooth and nail for every. Single. Word.

Tomorrow I get to beat the shit out of things in the story though, so that'll be fun.

G'night world.