NaNoWriMo day three is in the bag, and the word count has risen slightly. My one day of outside-the-house work was today, so the laptop was left behind. To compensate, I used pen and paper to scribble out some of the characters I’ll be introducing soon. Making the characters gave me better insight into their cities, which in turn gave me more insight on interactions between and among the cities.  Feels good to scribble things out, to scratch out the bad and write in the good and see everything remain on the page.  That’s one thing word processing has against it – once you delete, it’s gone (normally, of course; I’m not talking about seeing draft and crossing out and blah blah blah).

Tonight was writing night, the night I get out of the house, hit up a Starbucks, and caffeinate myself into creativity. Hey, it works.  As long as I can ignore the people around me, I’m good, and that’s why God made headphones, right? One quick aside – why in the world does a tutor take up residence at the nice table in the back every freaking time?  Same guy,  same bunch of high schoolers, and I’m still not sure exactly what he tutors. He’s always eating or stepping away to get a drink or hit the restroom or just chatting and laughing with the high schoolers. If I were paying for these sessions. I’d better be getting more out of it than watching him eat his soup from a thermos!