Posted today on my other blog – why do I keep my commitment to that group one and not this one? Peer pressure? Or maybe because someone actually reads that one? Besides me? Anyway, thought I’d share Mark Harmon here too because a girl can never have too much Mark, right? 
Will I ever do it again?
I’ve been neglecting this little blog a bit. I’m sorry. Life has gotten away from me lately. Am in the throes of year end reporting for the day job and have had no energy for anything else. Shamed to say that I have not gotten back to my NaNo work since I hit the word count. I’m falling down on the job here! My characters have probably moved across the country in a land grab and I dont even know it. Ah. The 1920s, so much opportunity for trouble. Even in the midst of prohibition!
Leaving you with some eye candy for the time being- Yes. Liam From my NaNo book is Irish but here is a guy in a kilt for you (Still on the British Isles) 
Uploaded last night before Leaving today for Boca Raton to spend Thanksgiving with no. 1 son. Today, when I logged on, my counter had turned to purple and it says “winner” How cool. first year to participate and I DID it. Was there ever any doubt? I’m an overachiever and proud of it. LOL!
I’m here in Boca waiting for him to get out of class. It is a dreary rainy day but who cares? Traffic wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be, I get to see my kid and I won NaNo. Its all good. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
made it. Just now. 8:48 CST NaNoWriMo goal met. Go me!
Bought a couple of Christmas gifts today. Hard to believe it will be here in such a short time. I’m sort of worried about getting the time to get it all done. It seems like all I do is work and write anymore. Gotta get that NaNo book done and then I have to get back to Dario. I know he misses me. I promised to ‘fatten’ up his story and then Liam came in and has shoved Dario into the closet. I sure hope I can convince the Alpha male Count to talk to me again since I took up with the upstart Irish singer. I mean, really, who’d tell a titled millionaire to wait a month 
for me to give me time to flirt with an Irish Republican Army major?
So, I was speeding along great guns toward my 50,000 words for NaNo and after I got to 40,000, I have slowed to a crawl. I still have great stuff in my head to put down but the back hurts and the arm hurts. I am working too hard at the real job- on the computer all day with that so, in the evening, I just can’t seem to get going. I have averaged less than 1,000 a night since my big sprint on Sunday. I still have time but I hate to watch that y axis crawl up so slowly.
I’m up to 40,000 words in NaNoWriMo. As I moved my story along from the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago, I realized I’d have to change a big part of it. My characters have been singing in bars. Well, today it dawned on my feeble brain that DUH! Once I got them to the USA, I had a problem. BIG one. PROHIBITION! Started in 1919. So, now we have to move to a speakeasy. Then the whole gangster thing came to mind. This story keeps going off in all kinds of crazy directions. I mean, who knew my male main character was going to write a suicide letter yesterday? Good thing I have all this crazy trivia hidden in my psyche- I’m glad it came to the fore today and not too late. That’s one reason I hesitated to do a historical. I love history but I’m paranoid about getting a detail wrong. Maybe my brain can keep me on target. MAYBE!
Have had a frustrating morning. Going to go scrapbook today and I can’t find the stamp set I want to use in the book I’m making about my trip to the Mexican Riviera. Have wasted over an hour looking for that sucker- it can’t even be in the building – if it was, I’d have found it. So. I COULD have been writing or something productive while I waited for time to go to the crop- but no, I wasted the morning. AND now I have to use another set and I’m not happy but like I tell my kids, “Life is tough and then you die.” So, I need to take my own advice and get over it.
NaNo update: I’m within 400 words of 35,000.00 So, only 15,000 to go- I’m over 2/3 done! Go me!
has taken a real turn that surprised me. His newest exploit came to me in the car on the way home and I actully had to tell him that he was a sly devil. He has decided on a course of action that I never foresaw. It always amazes me where the mind can go. I only thought I knew where this story was going. I was wrong and I have to say that Liam has pleasantly surprised me. I know its really me surprising me but this writing adventure never dulls for me. I guess when it does, it’ll be time to quit.
Ramblings of a Writer 