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So the daily update thing not going so well.  Still, the writing thing going alright considering. Here's the latest.

Momma smiled at the man and reassured him that he had done more than enough by showing them where to go next.  "Oh, but you don't know for sure that he'll be there yet! And it's nearly dark now. You can't continue on your journey so soon.  The children look exhausted.  Listen, stay here for the night. I have plenty of space and you can have rooms all to yourselves and right next to each other. We'll put the children in one room in the middle so everyone will be safe and sound. And after a big breakfast tomorrow you can continue on your way!" He smiled so broadly and like such a proud grandfather that they didn't have the heart to tell him no.  Momma smiled up at Papa, and Papa nodded.  Everyone thanked the man and followed him up to the rooms.

Holy cow! I haven't updated here in forever! Alright. I'm now up to just under 22,000 words. I know, crappy pace lately but I've had a lot going on. Almost everyone in the house is down with Bronchitis, aside from me and the Husband with his broken foot.  Hoo boy fun times.  Anyway, here's a snippet from the most recent section, and I will do much better at both my word count and making sure that I keep everyone all updated.

The Werewolves had told Papa that the only place that had the scent of the Wicked Witch in any kind of recent time was in the Black Forest. They would get the family there and meet their contacts from one of the packs in that area who would lead the Wilde's to where the Wicked Witch was. The Black Forest Werewolves had even more of hatred for the Wicked Witch and even less reason to show any restraint. Most people in the old country could tell a bad Witch from a good one, here they just kinda lumped them all in together.

Not quite as prolific of writing today as I have been doing, but I got a lot of that nasty plotting ahead thing done today so..at least there's that. Now there's nothing in between me and the climactic scene of the book except my aching and stiff wrists.  So on that note, here's the snippet for today..

"In every story that has a Witch in it, she's there. She's the Wicked Witch with the apple, the one with the staff, the one in all of them. All of those fairy tales, all of those movies, they're all based on her. She the most Wicked thing that ever was. Legends say that she joined in the original spell that the Nameless King cast over all the world, and where he was taken out of time she put herself in. She became more famous for her deeds and what she had done than she ever had before because there was so much missing from everywhere else. Instead of everyone remembering all of the good things that the Nameless King had done, they vaguely remembered the bad that the Wicked Witch had done. I didn't really believe she existed. Nobody does anymore." Momma Witch sighed and put her head in her hands. "Well," Said Momma Frog, "That may be, but we know that she exists now. So, how do we find her." Momma Witch shook her head, "I don't know. I don't know anyone that would. How do you find a story?" Baby Girl looked up from Momma Frogs lap at that and blinked her furry eyes. "In a library." She said.

Alright so I broke my 10k mark this afternoon. I'll be writing more later tonight but for now I'm happy with my progress.  Hope ya'll are happy with what you're doing too. Here's a little snippet from this most recent bit.  I had to revise some and I got to separate what I thought was the first chapter into the first chapters and that has made all the difference.  And it helped get rid of some of the writers block I was dealing with there a couple of days ago.  So, another Hooray for that. 

Eventually that afternoon wound to an end and Momma called everyone into the house for dinner. She had one of the kids favorites on the table for today. She had slow cooked, fresh off the vines green beans cooked in with little creamer potatos. There was corn on the cob, grilled pork chops, and southern style corn bread. Momma had also set the apple pie up in the window to cool while dinner was on the table. That way everyone knew that if they ate like they were supposed to then there was some seriously goodness for desert. One whiff of Momma's apple pie was usually all that it took for anyone to eat up. Apple pie was one of Momma's specialties.

I gotta admit, today I did not really have my voice as well as usual.  I was lagging and had to literally force myself to sit here and work because i'm exhausted.  It's been a seriously long day of regular grown up life stuff.  Didn't even get home until after 3 today, and didn't get to start writing until after 9:30.  Long, tiring day, and I'm just waiting to go to bed now. But in the meantime I got a little bit done on the Villains section of the story..so here's a taste.

Well, I managed to attend the virtual write-in anyway. Not sure how I feel about it though. It was not what I expected.  Either way, I did it. And I got my word count in for the day. I'm up to 8,000 words now.  I've decided that when I reach 10k words I can get myself a treat for keeping with it so well.  Here's to hoping that the darling elusive muse sticks with me! In the meantime here's another little snippet from what I did today. 

So, nanowrimo is having a virtual write-in, which I would love since there is nearly no chance of me ever making a real one.  And then I get all excited and I go to join in and it's at 3 this afternoon.