Half way marked by a weasel visit

[altivo]

Yay, progress. Just passed the halfway mark two days early. That's the minimum lead I said I would need before MFF. Looking good for a strong finish, I hope.

NaNoWriMo progress: Footprints in the storm's aftermath

25,040 / 50,000 (50.1%)

Newest installment is here.

In other news, there isn't a lot of other news. Gloom, drizzle, but at least not too cold.

We saw what we think was a least weasel outside the window of the staff kitchen at work this afternoon. Janet called me and asked what would look like a furry hot dog running around in the weeds and kind of hunching when it moved. My first thought was that she was seeing a meadow vole, of which we have great numbers, and when I went to look, at first I was sure that was it. She went and looked up pictures of voles and insisted that no, it was something else. Then I saw the critter run across the brick walk and sure enough, it was too long in the body for a vole, and had a definitely weaselish hunch in its back as it ran. Checking various references, it appears that the least weasel is a possibility. We are far enough north, and they do actually run that small. This one was probably seven inches, not counting the tail, with gray brown fur on its back and white underneath. It certainly moved in a weasel-like manner. We put some popcorn and some dry cat kibble out on the step to see if it would come back, but neither of us saw it again before it got too dark out to watch.

Oh, and PS: My missing jacket arrived, done up beautifully in a box like a mail order package, on today's delivery van.

Comments

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

So the idea is to write a 50,000 word novel? And then what? Is it automatically published? Or is it just for fun like Arbor Day?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nothing happens automatically, except that you get a gold star next to your name on the NaNoWriMo web site. And you prove to yourself and your friends that yes, you actually could do it, of course.

Some folks do indeed manage to get their novels published. I've been dumping mine onto the web at furrag.com chapter by chapter, as fast as I write it. It starts to look as if it will be longer than 50,000 words before it is really finished, but I expect to finish it up in less than 65,000. In typical mass market paperback terms, 50,000 words is somewhere around 100 to 120 pages. Short, but long enough to be called a novel.

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

Anyone who can write well in a language can do that, then...

Ooh, how about using all short words, make it 75 pages. ;) Has anyone made a novel with three and four letter words?

*sigh* If I only had my talent and muse back...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The most difficult novel challenge in English that I've ever heard of was someone who wrote an entire novel without using the letter "E". I remember hearing that it was somewhat nonsensical, which I can certainly believe since probably half the words in the dictionary do have at least one "E" in them.

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

And a chapter of punctuation which one may sprinkle liberally amongst the previous chapters! :D

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Quotey from goon show "The scarlet capsule"

"I saws a creature climbin up the wall....it twas a weasle and suddenly it went *POP*"
"What a strange and horrible death"

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Mustelids for the win.