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Once one dismisses the rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this is the best of all possible worlds...because there's pie!

I don't think I've ever made pie before. But today I decided to make this pie with this crust and all I have to say is: toasted pecan is my new favorite flavor.

I'll find out tomorrow if the pie turned out. I have my in-laws (and my in-laws' in-laws') as test subjects. Mwahaha!

Finished Feed by M. T. Anderson. The ending punched me in the stomach--wait, that was the ending?!?!? And then it made a lot of sense. And then I wanted to write a paper on how brilliant it was. Again, I highly recommend the audiobook.

Still in the middle of reading 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Golden Age.

Cleaned house. Wrote. Now I think it's time to clean my office a bit. But first, the word count reportage!

Written: 2,077 words
Total: 16,444 words

I completely forgot to write one of Teague's sections. But I think he got enough time in the spotlight, so I may move it to a later chapter. I'm currently back to Evey. I'm not quite sure what to do with her, now that I have her installed in her house, chatting up the butler. Things need to go horribly wrong sometime soon.

Wrote 2,325 words today. Stopped to watch bad movies and to figure out how exactly I want to play Vichandi. He's a grieving father, but he's also not the greatest person. I don't want to make it all about missing his daughter and not liking the "replacement." He's definitely on the side of "the bad." He takes away the young hero's supporters one by one, and is at least indirectly responsible for her death. But I need reasons.... Stupid necessary fiction logic.

I had many parents compliment me on the practicality of the face mask and tyvex body suit (a 28 Weeks Later promo) I wore when answering the door to hand out candy. And I only made one child run away screaming...but he eventually came back, lured by candy. Mwahaha....

I just finished rereading the 40 pages I wrote of the story for my NaNoNovel for my IFJM attempt in April. Why is it that my writing gets worse as I get older? Sigh. Anyway, still psyched for NaNoWriMo (starting in 3-ish hours!), but starting to feel like the process after November is going to be an uphill battle. But I knew that. Right now, I'm just going to have fun.

Brandon, one of the people in my writers group, gave everybody This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley a few months ago. I'll take 2-3 months writing the first draft and the rest of the year revising and getting ready to send it out. The more I think about it, the more I love my characters. This will work.

I'll be posting my word count each day. The eventual goal is around 90k words for a draft, but I'm just shooting for 50k in November. If things are going well, that goal may increase, but I'm trying to stick with a reasonable goal for now.

Anyone else doing the craziness with me? I'm still cascade-fire over there. My favorite topic on the forums at the moment is the photos of everyone's writing spaces.