I Forgot to Mention...

I have a working Title! I'm calling it The Big Heist. Why you ask?

Have you ever seen Funny Farm with Chevy Chase? Well it is about a city couple who buy a farm in Vermont or somewhere so that he can write his Great American Novel. The only problem is that it is a comedy with Chevy Chase in it. I think that he manages to write the title page and first sentence before he gets writer's block and realizes that the locals could only exist in... you got it... a Chevy Chase movie. Meanwhile, his wife writes a successful children's novel about a city squirrel that moves to the country.

There must be happy ending, but I don't remember it (I think there are ducks, but I can't be sure). In fact, I generally only come across this movie flipping channels or when I'm doing an imdb.com search for Cold Comfort Farm, but that doesn't change the fact that The Big Heist is a strangely appropriate name for my work in progress.

NaNoWriMo

Well, National Write a Novel Month is upon us. I give my thanks to MRC II for sharing that link with me. After briefly reviewing the rules I said "Why not?" After all I've to write one anyway, and if I get a certificate AND a gold star by my name, what more do I need. Plus, MRF isn't participating so I'll get to thumb my nose at her until she is finished. Not that I'd do such a thing.

There are six to eight of us participating in the office, so we have a nice support group (except our supervisor who said that she will be watching our productivity carefully). MRC II and I were trying to come up with a visual way to chart our project. We finally decided on a marble jar. Who doesn't love marble jars! Each of us will have our own color and for every 1000 words we write we get to drop in a marble.

Of course, we came up with that plan before I learned how long it took to write 1000 words...