The Comfort of Quitting

My niece Laura took this picture I quit. I quit trying to “win” NaNoWriMo.  Winning would have meant writing 50,000 words of a so-called novel in the 30 days of November.   I started off strong, believing that this was my “winning” year.  As of a few days ago, I have put away NaNoWriMo writing…

Friday Five: It is Well With My Soul

Not my photo, although it seems very familiar. The Friday Five invitation at RevGalBlogPals talks about perks and privileges for which we are grateful.  To quote kathrynzj over there:  There are many perks in my life for which I give thanks and then there are some that make everything right in the world during the…

Some See Fungi

Some “rare” Texas mushrooms Words:  The dawn of Day Four of NaNoWriMo and I have completed a tenth of the 30-day journey of 50,000 words with a current word count at 5163. As if the voices in my head are not sufficiently taunting and belittling, Laura Miller at Salon.com opines that NaNoWriMo is a (quote)…