Kick-Off Party and New Thoughts

Darn. I missed posting yesterday. Okay... that's a lie. I thought about it and blew it off. lol Last night, a friend and I went and hung out at Barnes and Noble. Do you know what it's like to find someone who loves office supplies as much as you do? It's awesome! I think we spent at least an hour in the journal section alone, looking in all the journals, comparing the lines, paper quality, etc. Then, we meandered over to the writing section and talked about good writing books. She was so sweet and loaned me three good books on how to become a freelance writer, and I turned around and loaned her my "No Plot? No Problem!" and the Gotham Writer's Workshop Fiction book. It works so well. She bought a journal that I would have loved to have owned myself. There were two of them there. If I'd had the money, I so would have bought it and done NaNo by hand this year. lol

I got to play with some moleskin journals. You know what? I do not like the feel of that paper. It felt kind of oily or something. My hand kept "hitching" on it and it didn't move smooth across the paper. Nope. I like normal paper better. :-) In a way, my pocketbook is happy about that. lol

Tomorrow night, we're talking about hightailing it off to a REAL office supply store and looking at pens and pencils. Ooh! There's a new Sharpie Pencil on the market that I want to try, so I'll definitely get one of those. Otherwise, I'm good for pens, darn it. lol

Tonight was the Kick-Off party. You know, by necessity, they're usually held during dinner time, so it makes sense to do them at a restaurant. Unfortunately, you're isolated to who you can talk to at the table. I wonder what it would be like to do a pot luck kind of get-together at a community center. That would be worth exploring in the future. It would allow people to walk around and talk to everyone, see what they're writing, etc.

What else? Umm... I did no writing today. *hangs head* I did come up with an idea for my book though, I just didn't write it down. Bad me! I should do that right now while I'm thinking about it! *ponders how to "weave" a book within a book and mark it in Scrivener*

Yup. I think that just about covers the past two days. Can you blame me for not posting yesterday? lol In all realities, my life is fairly boring. Well... minus any major drama from my boys, but that's normal for me. hehehe

I'd better head out. I need to sew some labels to something for hubby. Thank goodness the first print worked! I'm so low on ink I don't think I could have done it again. hehehe Oh, geez! I still need a picture of my fingerless gloves. I swear, I think I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached! Nope... I still lose it from time to time. Man. There's no hope for me. lol ;-)