Word Count: Fifty Thousand Thirteen
WORD COUNT: 50,013
So I won National Novel Writing Month. With the very, very rough draft of "Threnody", a new story set in my Proverse stories of heroes the day after heroics were great. (I can probably take off one very by the end of the year, but for now I just want to sit back and stare at the snow ... well, not falling right now, but still an annoying part of life in North Dakota to drive in, especially making turns!) And there are still other installments I have planned to release, including a Nano from four years ago I need to finish, a concluding novel of a trilogy I've needed to finish for a decade now, and Nano in 2020 will be another installment in the same world -- a tossup so far whether it will be a viewpoint (re: first person) tale or an overhead (re: third person) or a bit of both.
To borrow from Guardians of the Galaxy, I think it will be a bit of both!
Anyway, I didn't get here yesterday to share news of my win because where I live travel was effectively shut down. So the kids took advantage of having no school and Martha and I took advantage of having no work to go to and didn't go anywhere ... well, except outside to play in the snow for a bit -- a foot and a half high in our backyard -- and we did some shoveling of our sidewalks as well. The driveway was done by someone else on our street who offered to do it. Besides getting home Tuesday night being a bear, I got stuck once on my way out of a credit union parking lot and Trey driving along helping several others already saw me and pulled me out
-- and Martha with the kids got stuck SIX times and got help out each time --
it got Martha who's lived up here her whole life a mite tremulous at the thought of driving in the snow again. Oh, she still did this morning to get to work, but it got to the point where Martha and I had to push on the van with Sarah at the wheel slowly backing up (yes, our ten-year-old at the steering wheel) before she could go. And then I was set to go because Sarah needed to be at band practice at Ramstad Middle School at 7:30. But I'm not two blocks away from our house when my sister-in-law Margaret whose daughter Josceline goes to Ramstad calls me and offers to bring Sarah there. So I got back and met Margaret, Josceline, and Robert (Martha's dad, now pay attention)
and Sarah went to Ramstad with them.
Jeffrey I took to school at Longfellow thirty minutes later. And a few minutes to restore my sanity and morality (that's pretty much December or at least the first week post-Nano these last few years) are what's called for, particularly after the mild burn that Thanksgiving was for me. So perhaps a few of these favorite sayings and posts of mine from the last half of November -- not as many as I usually list because there ... were ... moments. But I know I can do better than that, especially coming back after a snow day.
David
1. The architecture of our homes, neighborhoods, and nations also reveal what we hold dear and what we fear. What's the focus of your living room? Do property zoning laws serve to separate wealthy people and poor people? Where are the prisons, jails, and detention centers?
(Michael Wilker, 111616, Christ In Our Home)
2. It seems virtually impossible some days to question the sanity and morality of sending so many people into combat without people launching into long speeches of how people who question this are disrespecting our country and our veterans. Until we as a country can have that conversation without knee jerk reactions, we will keep having more military funerals than we need.
3. It is impossible for a man to be completely free from sin before he hates it.
(Ignatius)
14. Contains approximately 1,422,561 endings (and only a little bit of doom)
[From a sponsored post for Choose Your Own Adventure, seen 112916, for an offer of 40 books which would make each book average 35,564 possible endings!]
15. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Romans 13:12 (New International Version)
16. It's never too late to be a hero.
(Once Upon A Time, "Changelings")
17. Surround yourself with people who believe more in you than you do in yourself.
(Gabe Nataly)
18. But modern skepticism about the Bible stems from a conviction about the unlikeliness of miracles that [Spanish-born twelfth century poet Yehuda] Halevi doesn't share. To him, the idea that the Exodus was invented out of whole cloth is less likely than the idea that it really happened. The former would have required a conspiracy; the latter only an act of God. If we think differently today, it is because we find fraud easier to imagine than miracles.
(Adam Kirsch, The People and the Books, p. 148)
19. ... because once we're able to put aside our differences and all be together as one, I really don't think there's anything that can stop us outside of the laws of physics ... and give that time as well. Right on!
So I won National Novel Writing Month. With the very, very rough draft of "Threnody", a new story set in my Proverse stories of heroes the day after heroics were great. (I can probably take off one very by the end of the year, but for now I just want to sit back and stare at the snow ... well, not falling right now, but still an annoying part of life in North Dakota to drive in, especially making turns!) And there are still other installments I have planned to release, including a Nano from four years ago I need to finish, a concluding novel of a trilogy I've needed to finish for a decade now, and Nano in 2020 will be another installment in the same world -- a tossup so far whether it will be a viewpoint (re: first person) tale or an overhead (re: third person) or a bit of both.
To borrow from Guardians of the Galaxy, I think it will be a bit of both!
Anyway, I didn't get here yesterday to share news of my win because where I live travel was effectively shut down. So the kids took advantage of having no school and Martha and I took advantage of having no work to go to and didn't go anywhere ... well, except outside to play in the snow for a bit -- a foot and a half high in our backyard -- and we did some shoveling of our sidewalks as well. The driveway was done by someone else on our street who offered to do it. Besides getting home Tuesday night being a bear, I got stuck once on my way out of a credit union parking lot and Trey driving along helping several others already saw me and pulled me out
-- and Martha with the kids got stuck SIX times and got help out each time --
it got Martha who's lived up here her whole life a mite tremulous at the thought of driving in the snow again. Oh, she still did this morning to get to work, but it got to the point where Martha and I had to push on the van with Sarah at the wheel slowly backing up (yes, our ten-year-old at the steering wheel) before she could go. And then I was set to go because Sarah needed to be at band practice at Ramstad Middle School at 7:30. But I'm not two blocks away from our house when my sister-in-law Margaret whose daughter Josceline goes to Ramstad calls me and offers to bring Sarah there. So I got back and met Margaret, Josceline, and Robert (Martha's dad, now pay attention)
and Sarah went to Ramstad with them.
Jeffrey I took to school at Longfellow thirty minutes later. And a few minutes to restore my sanity and morality (that's pretty much December or at least the first week post-Nano these last few years) are what's called for, particularly after the mild burn that Thanksgiving was for me. So perhaps a few of these favorite sayings and posts of mine from the last half of November -- not as many as I usually list because there ... were ... moments. But I know I can do better than that, especially coming back after a snow day.
David
1. The architecture of our homes, neighborhoods, and nations also reveal what we hold dear and what we fear. What's the focus of your living room? Do property zoning laws serve to separate wealthy people and poor people? Where are the prisons, jails, and detention centers?
(Michael Wilker, 111616, Christ In Our Home)
2. It seems virtually impossible some days to question the sanity and morality of sending so many people into combat without people launching into long speeches of how people who question this are disrespecting our country and our veterans. Until we as a country can have that conversation without knee jerk reactions, we will keep having more military funerals than we need.
3. It is impossible for a man to be completely free from sin before he hates it.
(Ignatius)
4. Of all the reasons to get K. O. ed, failing to sleep with your wife so rarely makes the list.
5. We got that kindred mentality homie ... iron sharpens iron!
6. Yes. Infiltrating a society used to purging itself -- and then doing the purging for it.
(Rom: Spaceknight #45, cover date August 1983)
7. "Twas the night before Thanksgiving
And the stars up above
Shone down on a school
Abounding with love" -Dav Pilkey
...
5. We got that kindred mentality homie ... iron sharpens iron!
6. Yes. Infiltrating a society used to purging itself -- and then doing the purging for it.
(Rom: Spaceknight #45, cover date August 1983)
7. "Twas the night before Thanksgiving
And the stars up above
Shone down on a school
Abounding with love" -Dav Pilkey
...
(In other news, I love 1st grade programs! )
8. Brilliance is winning, but also not telling your opponents that they're losing.
(Napoleon)
9. What I’m saying is that of all of Batman’s adversaries, Catwoman is absolutely the least likely to go Frank Castle [aka the Punisher from Marvel Comics] on us.
This is, pardon the phrase, character assassination.
(Dan Greenfield, "Why Has DC Turned Catwoman Into a Mass Murderer?", 112716, 13th Dimension)
10. Nothing sucks in my life.... I sometimes have a hard time accepting humanity and being human myself.
11. Funny thing is you claim you love Donna you don't you love someone you would prove it
[I left Donna's name in this post for 1) I know a few and 2) this is mostly like a hack -- I like the third person wording here.]
12. I just read some comments on a post in one of my fb groups ... Wow ... I didn't know people had such strong opinions about if it's appropriate to call their spouse "Dadiiii"!!!! I came to the conclusion that: Women generally overthink EVERYTHING!!!
😂
8. Brilliance is winning, but also not telling your opponents that they're losing.
(Napoleon)
9. What I’m saying is that of all of Batman’s adversaries, Catwoman is absolutely the least likely to go Frank Castle [aka the Punisher from Marvel Comics] on us.
This is, pardon the phrase, character assassination.
(Dan Greenfield, "Why Has DC Turned Catwoman Into a Mass Murderer?", 112716, 13th Dimension)
10. Nothing sucks in my life.... I sometimes have a hard time accepting humanity and being human myself.
11. Funny thing is you claim you love Donna you don't you love someone you would prove it
[I left Donna's name in this post for 1) I know a few and 2) this is mostly like a hack -- I like the third person wording here.]
12. I just read some comments on a post in one of my fb groups ... Wow ... I didn't know people had such strong opinions about if it's appropriate to call their spouse "Dadiiii"!!!! I came to the conclusion that: Women generally overthink EVERYTHING!!!
😂
13. Me: Boys! I have 4,000 words left to write - just accept that you have no mother for the night.
Boys: Okay
Me: *types furiously*
...
Boys: Okay
Me: *types furiously*
...
Eldest Child: *casually saunters through to my room*
Me: This had <better> be important, I'm on a serious deadline here.
Eldest: Yeah, just wanted to check that you're aware that it's only the 29th today?
Me: Eh?!
Eldest: Didn't you get confused about when the first of November was too?
Me: Maybe...
Eldest: In other news - guess who's getting a calendar for Christmas?
I don't know if I should be ticked off at the sarcasm or relieved because I've got a day longer than I thought to get this done.
Me: This had <better> be important, I'm on a serious deadline here.
Eldest: Yeah, just wanted to check that you're aware that it's only the 29th today?
Me: Eh?!
Eldest: Didn't you get confused about when the first of November was too?
Me: Maybe...
Eldest: In other news - guess who's getting a calendar for Christmas?
I don't know if I should be ticked off at the sarcasm or relieved because I've got a day longer than I thought to get this done.
14. Contains approximately 1,422,561 endings (and only a little bit of doom)
[From a sponsored post for Choose Your Own Adventure, seen 112916, for an offer of 40 books which would make each book average 35,564 possible endings!]
15. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Romans 13:12 (New International Version)
16. It's never too late to be a hero.
(Once Upon A Time, "Changelings")
17. Surround yourself with people who believe more in you than you do in yourself.
(Gabe Nataly)
18. But modern skepticism about the Bible stems from a conviction about the unlikeliness of miracles that [Spanish-born twelfth century poet Yehuda] Halevi doesn't share. To him, the idea that the Exodus was invented out of whole cloth is less likely than the idea that it really happened. The former would have required a conspiracy; the latter only an act of God. If we think differently today, it is because we find fraud easier to imagine than miracles.
(Adam Kirsch, The People and the Books, p. 148)
19. ... because once we're able to put aside our differences and all be together as one, I really don't think there's anything that can stop us outside of the laws of physics ... and give that time as well. Right on!
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