Nanowrimo: Two More Days to Not Plan

Several things:

1. My username on the Nanowrimo site is TinyBites. Please add me as a friend and send me saucy messages, so that I can spy on your word count and envy your purple status bar.

2. On Thursday I woke up and my disobedient vertebrae, the one that was injured when I fell off that awesome horse as a teenager, was in a rage with me. Could have been an overexuberant workout at the gym on Wednesday, or, it could have been Nano approaching. Either way, and you can write me off as a kook or not at this point, but I think that whatever nerves are coming out of that disastrous vertebrae are the same ones that are supposed to be regulating the contractions of my colon (ISN'T THIS AWESOME, TO KNOW THIS? ABOUT ME?) and so I have been having constant, raging, eye-popping trips to the bathroom for the last four days. Is it nerves, over Nano? Am I taking everything a bit too seriously? Or is it my spine, which I angered on the elliptical machine, rapid-firing the big flashing "Eject!" button? Eh?

3. I have looked around at the different official methods for outlining a novel, just to see what I'm missing, and I have to say that anything that requires you to sit down and write out character profiles including their favorite way to cook beef and what shoes they most liked in seventh grade and whatnot are just idiotic, unless you're in seventh grade yourself and really enjoy mooning over your characters like that. Look, it's about the language, people. The language and the images. Let it roll. I won't be doing the snowflake or the phase or the nutcake or whatever else there is. I'm going to just run with what I have. Which is a lot of paint chips from home depot. That's going to be my method of diagramming my novel. Go ahead, you can use it. I don't mind.

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