Finished!

Hooray! Yesterday I reached 50,000 words on the Julnowrimo project! For this project, I worked on a story that I started a few months ago. It's kind of science fiction in that it's set in a time of intergalactic travel and seven galaxies of human civilization. However that's only a loose structure. The main character, Bennett Carsgrove, is named after Elizabeth Bennett, of course and (I hope) that she's just as strong-willed and intelligent as her namesake. Bennett is an architect who travels the seven galaxies creating amazing structures. At one point in the story, she goes to a planet called Transitania; a place largely covered in rainforest. I could say a whole lot more about this story, but even 50,000 + words in, I'm not ready to share more. Maybe if I manage to finish it, I'll share more info later.

4th of July/JULNOWRIMO

Today is the 4th of July! Yay! It's also a Sunday. The Legion and whoever else is in charge of the town celebration stuff has decided to have the parade and everything else today. The parade is at 11:00 so a lot of people will have to choose between going to the parade and going to church. I think this is really weird. Why not celebrate on Saturday? or Monday? The parade isn't super long, but it's a fun thing to see (I usually see a bunch of my kids there each year) so I'll be sad to miss it. I should be able to go to the fireworks, but it will probably feel weird to be having them on a Sunday. Oh well, I guess there's nothing I can really do. You probably have to live here for 30+ years before you have any influence over those kinds of decisions.

I always think about Aunt Kim on this day. I miss her. Slug bug red!

On another note, in my last post I talked about writing again. I did work on that story for a few days but nothing much ever came of it and I kind of quit writing again. Until yesterday, that is. JULNOWRIMO is on and I was already signed up since I did it last year, so I started writing yesterday. JULNOWRIMO is sort of like NANOWRIMO (national novel writing month in November where you write a 50,000 word novel in one month) but a bit more relaxed. You still have to write 50,000 words, but it doesn't have to be a brand new project. You can work on past pieces as well. I'm working on a very-loosely-based-in-science-fiction piece and I have about 2300 words so far. I'm way behind already, but that's okay. I have plenty of time to catch up. And to the three or so people who actually read this blog, no you can't read my writing until it's ready. And it might not ever be-not this piece anyway. We'll see.

Well, that's it for today. Happy 4th of July!!!!!