TRIUMPH!

I've been wrestling with my work website on Wordpress, and I conquered a problem I've been trying to figure out for days.

And I conquered it by reading the help section! Ha! Lesson learned. Look at the help topics. They're helpful.

I still feel a sense of triumph, even though it's like feeling brilliant for stopping to ask directions.

I'm pumped!

I have a lousy perception of the passage of time. I also don't have a sense of direction, but that isn't germane to this post. I will say that I am completely without an intuitive sense of time or place. So, of course, it is a little surprising to me that Sunday is November 1st! But I'm excited. I've been jotting down potential writing prompts with the goal of having at least one per day. My goal for this "book" isn't publication, but I would like to print it out for Ava, for when she's older. I'm hopeful that readers will post comments that I'd also like to include.

See you in November!

Sorry to have gone AWOL--many projects demanded my attention, including an eminent and desperately needed basement renovation.

However, in November, I'm going to try National Novel Writing Month again, and I'm going to post excerpts here. I doubt anyone wants to read the whole thing, because it's NOT National GOOD Novel Writing Month. If you enjoy writing, it's an excellent exercise in just getting words onto paper, which is often the hardest part of writing anything. My month is really more, Typing Towards a Goal of 50,000 Words.

My topic is schmaltzy: Letters to My Daughter: Stuff I Want to Tell You Just In Case I Die.

A little morbid, perhaps, or overly dramatic, but as her first birthday approaches, there are just so many things, so many memories I want to get down on paper just in case . . . and honestly, the more likely scenario is that when she's entering adolescence, she will be busy and on the surface, dismissive of whatever I have to say. But if I write some stuff down, she can access it when I'm not looking. It's a chance to speak to her when she's interested in hearing what I have to say.