Antidote

OK, I admit it. I’m an obnoxious besotted dog-owner. In case there’s any doubt about that after I posted that professional portrait of Jasper the other day. Where he’s lounging on a pillow looking alertly at the camera, and looking way too sweet for any real life dog. Including Jasper himself.

Leave it to FurGirl to bring us the antidote to the saccharine. I just adore the picture of her lounging all over her puppy house-mate’s new bed, with a paw resting on a pillow. Just click here to see what I mean. She looks calm and regal, with a bit of “don’t mess with the Queen” attitude that works with her good looks.

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Seventy-five percent

It’s not over till the NaNoWriMo word count validator says I have written 50,000 words, or midnight on November 30, whichever comes first.

But I’m pleased to note that my current word count is 37,644. Which is 75.2% of 50,000.

My first draft novel is a mish-mash of dreck with a few decent scenes, and not something I really want to discuss in detail. Not right now. Maybe not ever. But I will say that the word output speeded up yesterday when I killed off a main character in a random street crime. In a medium sized midwestern US city in 1939, which I learned while writing it has more shock value than, say, such a random crime on the streets of almost any American city in 2008.

Hmm, is that the finish line I can see out there in the distance?

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