Against my better judgment, I'm in on National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) again this year, my third. I snuck up on it again. I told myself I'm not doing it, I have too many projects I haven't been getting to, I'm holding Thanksgiving dinner, family is visiting, blah, blah, blah. Then I decided I couldn't pass up the crazy productivity that is November writing and thought I could merely channel it into something I keep not doing - revising my 2007 NaNo. Strictly speaking, revising/editing doesn't fall under the purview of NaNoWriMo. It's new novels only.
But upon perusing the vibrant community forums at the NaNoWrimo website, I found others out of the 90,000 or so who had a similar plan to mine. And they called themselves Rebels.
So I'm declaring this a Rebel year. My goal is to write 50,000 new words for my old novel. Furthermore, I'd like to finish up by Thanksgiving. Which means I have 25 days to do it. Oh boy.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
'Tis the Other Season
Saturday, October 10, 2009
'Tis the Season
Let's play spot our Halloween costumes. This is the poster for this year's Halloween costume contest at the DNA Lounge which has us in it twice! As far as I know, there was no bribery involved. Click the "Read More" link for the super sekrit answer.
We're third down on the left column (last year's costume) and top of the right column (2006).
Monday, October 5, 2009
I Gotta Feelin'
My new favorite song. I don't think I'm capable of sitting still when this song comes on. The video above is a special version they performed for Oprah. The crowd is a flash mob of approximately 21,000 people that all learned the dance moves.
Now I want to spend some time with the following video to learn the dance, for no other reason than um.. I like learning dances to fun songs. For the record, my current dance is more like the one the lone girl in the crowd starts the song off with - a whole lot of bouncing and waving my hands in the air.
We saw them perform this live at Golden Gate Park at the Outside Lands concert at the end of August. They are definitely a high-energy, fun band to watch.