Greetings, everyone, and happy Halloween!
The pumpkin featured in the photo above is named Mabon.
He was my pumpkin last year. Sitting in the far left corner of my desk,
he kept me company while I wrote, read, and finished assignments. He
was a great friend and provided a home for a Long-legged Sac Spider.
I don't have a picture of this year's pumpkin, yet, but I'll probably post
a photo of her on Thanksgiving. She will be keeping me company
throughout NaNoWriMo this year.
And that, my friends, brings us to our next order of business this evening.
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Today is October 31st, also known as Halloween where I'm from.
Also known as one of the busiest weekends of my year.
This I was dressed as a cat, I consumed more sugar than I probably should have, and I was cold. I gallivanted from one party to another... to yet another, and I have no pictures to show for it. I ran around out in the rain and fog, went traipsing about in the woods, and spent time drawing on my new digital sketch-pad. Tonight I went Trick-or-Treating - although, I didn't beg for candy because I'm a bit too old for that (Note: This too old bit is up for debate, since my friend insists that one can never be to old to Trick-or-Treat. My neighbors, however, think differently. No more candy for me. So, perhaps this means I need to trick them from now on...).
The point is, I spent most of my weekend having fun and not accomplishing much in the vein of writing. However, as I've already mentioned, it's Halloween. And while Halloween is loads of fun, that also means we're only mere hours off from the start of the new month...
and NaNoWriMo.
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For the last month and a half or so, I've been on hiatus. I know that disappointed some of you, but the hiatus actually came around at the perfect time. All of that time away from blogging on-line was supposed to be spent writing new blogs, however, that didn't really work out. I ended up tumbling through the worst bit of my depression thus far, instead. I was sick. Our friend - who had been living with us - left. I started reorganizing my life. I've been trying to finish a project for my family. My room needed to be cleaned (and it's done now). I've been trying to make a decision on which school to go to and what to major in next Fall. And I was having some computer problems, which I think I've fixed.
Basically, I was suddenly very busy.
It's nearly November 1st now, though, and it's time to get this blog back up and running. Since I couldn't pre-write NaNoWriMo blogs anyway, we'll be seeing literally brand-new material this month. And, while I'm NaNo-ing, I'll also be writing the blogs that should have been completed on my hiatus. So, when NaNoWriMo is over, you'll still be seeing more carefully crafted blogs here.
The short version? Ink Is Gold is back in action!
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One last note:
I'm excited!
We're about to cross over the line into NaNoLand here in Michigan.
There are a mere twenty minutes standing between us and the novel-ing madness of November.
In these last few minutes, I'd like to say:
Good luck to all of you novelists out there! Let's make this the best ride, yet!
I've got my OpenOffice documents up and ready to begin writing the moment midnight strikes.
I've got my outlines open and ready to go.
I've got a cup of hot caramel coffee.
(In theory) I'm ready to go on this novel writing adventure!
And to start myself off, I'm going to aim for 7,000 words tonight.
What are your starting goals? Have you hit them, yet?
PS (really cool): Has anyone noticed that the NaNoWriMo site isn't failing under the massive influx of users logging on this year? Thanks Office of Letters and Light for all of the wonderful work you've been doing to update the website and manage the server issues! We love you!
