Weather: cool, cloudy

Reading: Just finished The Highest Tide, by Jim Lynch and The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto. I enjoyed both. "Hidden Message" is very interesting. Dr. EMoto goes into some stuff that sounds like flights of fancy, but the photos are very pretty. And I do agre with him that the thoughts in a person make him what he is. Now reading 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn.

It's National Novel Writing Month and I am observing it this year. I have from November 1 to November 30 to write 50,000 words, which constitute my novel. This is about quantity, not quantity, the organizers are fond of telling everyone. And that novel writing is not only for "writers" any more than art should only be done by "artists." No, if you want to write a novel, you should just do it. Now, I actually am a writer, but was beginning to think of myself as a former writer. Which is pitiable. I have a lot of stories in me, and it's time to let them out! SO - I'm doing that. It is the 18th of November and I have 34,225 words in it as of now, so I am doing it! I am proud of me.