Held In (Written) Thrall

It's NaNoWriMo wine pairing time again. Week 2 is always a slog for me, so I picked this wine totally by the label. It's fantastical and inspiring, and even though it has no direct tie to my story, I'm excited to push through a writing session tonight & try to make up some of my word deficit. This is a rich wine with notes of cherry and smoke, and is cranberry tart, just how I like my Zinfandels. Thank you, Inconspicuous Zinfandel! I am off to write some fight scenes.

Now onto writing some scenes featuring lady investigators of a certain age, counterfit honey, and maybe a legend or two...

Go fellow WriMo's! *\o/*

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo by trying the Sticky Note Collage of Doom exercise Ryussei Dragon Stars posted in the NaNo Prep forum. And because I could, I found a wine pairing for it, Yalumba's The Scribbler, a Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz blend that packs a delightful sweet-tart punch. Perfect for dooming up the wall with sticky notes to help me nail down my project's mood/tone/feel!

At my first NaNoWriMo write-in of the season! It’s 3 hours, so I’m shooting for 3-5K.

Last few days of #nanowrimo prep! Got all the write-ins scheduled on my planner. Now to flesh out a couple more character sheets…

Setting up a project notebook totally counts as progress, right? (I also went to the library and picked up reference material.) (...also, autocorrect suggested "lint war" for my (admittedly horrible) misspelling of library, and no, autocorrect. Even though I have cats, there are no lint wars in my house. I have come to accept I will always be sporting cat hair.)

Word came through the salmon swimming up Turenn to spawn: the western forest was preparing to test a champion. Well now. Ogarmach rose from the water. That was worth witnessing. Perhaps word would also reach Moluag, and they could continue their argument over which of them was the forest’s true mother. They’d yet to settle it. Maybe they would this time. It was an honor to offer a champion its first gift.