nanowrimo_participant_icon_122x244.gifAnd what the hell is NaNoWriMo? It means National Novel Writing Month. It’s the time of the year that you sit down for a month and pound out a 50,000 word novel. It can be more then 50,000 words, but you only win if you meet the word count goal. What do you win? Nothing but the satisfaction of writing that novel.

Whether you are a daily writer, or one that thinks you have a story in you, it’s time for you to get it out and on paper. Or computer. Or parchment. Or what ever you write on.

I have participated in NaNoWriMo for the past 5 years, but have yet to win. I put the blame on not really planning anything. I just dove in and started writing. And quickly running out of steam. But not this year. I actually have a plan.

I’ll be handwriting mine this year, as I have done in years past. I can’t write on the computer screen, as there are too many distractions (internet, email, forums, etc), so I find it easier to write with my fountain pen on paper.

I’ll be blogging my daily process, as well as updating my daily word count on the left bar. I may post snippets, but I doubt it.

So, let’s all have fun and start writing on Saturday.

At least it is in Michigan. On October 20′th, a police office in Saginaw County’s Thomas Township responded to a call from a resident who reported suspicious activity at a car wash. The office caught the man in the act of “receiving sexual favors from a vacuum“.

I have a couple of questions on this one. How can you receive sexual favors from an inanimate object? It’s not like the vacuum cleaner had any choice in the matter. The vacuum was just minding it’s own business at the car wash with the only expectation to vacuum up someone else’s mess. It was not to actually help someone make a mess.

And the other question is, wouldn’t this be rape? If the vacuum cleaner did not consent to the sexual act, isn’t that the very definition of rape? Shouldn’t this person have been charged with “raping a vacuum cleaner”?

  • What I've Read

  • Relentless (The Lost Fleet, Book 5) by Jack Campbell
    Relentless (The Lost Fleet, Book 5) by Jack Campbell
  • Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
    Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
  • Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2) by Jack Campbell
    Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2) by Jack Campbell
  • Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3) by Jack Campbell
    Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3) by Jack Campbell
  • On Writing by Stephen King
    On Writing by Stephen King
  • What I’m working on