Does thinking about someone calling have them call? I wondered if this worked for anyone else. I had been thinking for a few days about how to get someone to be in contact, and then out of the blue I get a text message. Unfortunately after a small flurry of messages, I haven’t had a single one since. I wonder what had them stop.

Too bad I have no way of working this into my novel. It might be a fun little plot twist. In my novel world, there are no cell phones. There’s very little of anything. Think of camping the old way…no GPS, no matches, no air beds, no prepackaged food. It’s just you and nature. Maybe it is a bit like living in Africa away from cities. I don’t really know, since I have never been.

It’s about time. There’s my current word count to the right. I’m working on finishing this novel–that means writing the complete plot to “the end”–in the 30 days. I have written in spite of being sick. Wednesday was painful. It took 45 hours to write 3,000 words, and once I did, I ended there. Thursday was better. I wrote 3,000 words in about 2 hours. We will see what today holds. I’m still not better, but I’m not feeling worse.

First rule: Save often and make backups. When I say save often, I mean every few minutes. My word program crashed on day 2. Luckily, the last save had everything except the spelling changing. The recovered file was a joke. If I had gone with it, I would have lost a large portion of my story that I could not have rewritten the same. The word widget still isn’t working. There are technical difficulties over at NaNoWriMo land. I’m currently at 9,754.

The widget for word count isn’t working. That would be that little empty box on the right. I’m at 7,051 words with more to add tonight. I have so much going on tomorrow that I won’t have a chance to write, so I need about 2,000 more words. I’m shooting for writing a finished novel again this year. That means writing 90-100K words. There’s nothing like a writing goal of 6,000 words in one day. I’m at 4,000, and it has been fast and slow. The first 2K were slow today. The last 2K have gone by quickly. I like quickly. Tuesday is teaching day.

While I enjoyed the Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It,” I certainly wasn’t moved. The film showed his attention to detail, showmanship and talent. It would have been an amazing concert. After all the articles about MJ, I was surprised he was so vibrant and healthy. He seemed normal for a pop star. The reviewers all said to take Kleenex and that the whole audience would be crying. I don’t think anyone cried in the theater when I went. In the end, we lost a great talent too early. Unfortunately, the same can be said of many celebrities.

It’s National Cat Day! I didn’t even know there was such a thing. If I wasn’t heading out for dance class, I’d post a photo of a cat. Oh well.

This is for anyone who hasn’t seen it posted elsewhere.
Spencer\'s Jewels

On my way to the photographer this morning, I saw a large man with colorful tattoos on his bulging arms. He had very little hair–mostly shaved. He wore a white wife beater and jeans. Anyone know why they call those tank tops wife beaters? And…he was pushing a stroller. I had to laugh when I noticed the incongruency. Did I actually see a tattooed, body builder pushing a stroller? I didn’t see a child in the stroller. It’s too bad I didn’t have my camera and couldn’t have stopped to snap a photo if I had.

No, sadly, I won’t be taking the pictures today. I will be in front of the camera. I have a casting call for HP this morning. I touched up my eyebrows (absolutely necessary) and had a little accident. Hopefully it won’t show up in the photos. I don’t have Tahitian dance practice today, so I will have to find something else to do for the afternoon. Perhaps I should get out my camera and take photos. It’s a beautiful day here.

It’s that time again–time for NaNoWriMo. I’ve even got some idea of a plot already. I don’t know how I will get it done in November. I haven’t posted that I’m working. I will be teaching two course that have three sessions each. These courses teach good writing skills to scientists. I just finished the pilot program in October. We will have to see how much I want to write after teaching writing and correcting errors.