November 23? Seriously?

How did it get to be Nov. 23 already?

No time to panic, must write. And write, and write, and write...

Oh yeah, lost track of what I was doing there for a minute.

So my idea is pretty well fleshed out, and I’ve been writing, but of course there are always 1,289 things that get in the way, from work and work and work to kids and school and everything else. So I’m actually okay with the progress I’ve been making.

Actually, the best thing that has come out of NaNo this year, for me, is the writing group we have started. Not sure if we will continue meeting after NaNo is done, but it has been really nice to get together and chat with other writers every Saturday afternoon. (Okay, so Saturday afternoon is not a great time to do it, but when WOULD be a good time?)

There are five of us that have been meeting each Saturday, mostly chatting about our story ideas and research progress and what not. It’s a bit of an eclectic group of people that I probably never would have met otherwise, let alone spent time getting to know. It’s been quite nice.

My story is advancing, though some of the details are hanging me up. For instance, my character is from Venezuela, but I don’t speak Spanish. So I’m struggling for some authenticity there.

I’m also working out the details of a fight between her and her husband, which I don’t want to be over the top and violent, but I want it to be clear that she and her husband are pretty well over. I’ll work it out, I’m just not there quite yet.

Let’s see, what else? The little girl’s name is not working for me at all. I’ve temporarily named her Dulcea, but I really don’t like it. Nothing brilliant has come up yet, though.