Late late late.

So, technically, it's the 16th of November. But since I haven't gone to bed yet, I'm still counting this as my blog for Friday. It's fine, trust me.

I went into work two hours early today and got a ton of work done before I even "officially" was at work for the day. I hate getting out of my bed that early, but it's so good to get things done while it's still quiet and I don't have the phone ringing in my ear nonstop.

After work, Marc and I went to Starbucks so that I could do some NaNoWriMo writing. I picked up where I left off last time and realized that I really need to be keeping better track of my characters, locations and all of the little details that I've already written. I don't want to forget to mention something later on in the story that is relevant to what's going on, and (more importantly), I don't want to have any sort of inconsistencies if I can avoid it. That will help with editing after I finish (if I decide to edit it. I'm honestly doing this just to write it).

I decided to halt the writing process and we ran over to Target for a pretty new notebook for organizing my novel brain.

Pretty:


Later on we went over to our friends' house for games. We met Tom and Stacy through a friend at work and get together with them every once in a while to hang out, play games and talk. Stacy is super crafty and is always making adorable things. I am way jealous of her craft supplies. Stacy was out of the house tonight, so Marc, Tom and I played a couple of rounds of Gloom and then some Magic The Gathering. 

Then, I let the boys play and filled out my new notebook with as many details as I could remember and put together from scrap paper about my novel so far. I didn't get a lot of actual words written today, but I have a GREAT outline now, and feel like I'm really getting to know my characters and can clearly see some of the locations that I've dreamed up for them to play in. 

I hung out with my buddy Missy, Tom and Stacy's cat. She was just observing at first: 


But then she decided to "help:" 


And now it's 2:46 am. I slept 4.5 hours last night and was up at 5:30 this morning. I am off to bed, where I'm sure I'll be out for the count as soon as my head hits the pillow. 

Goodnight! Happy weekend! 



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