Elizabeth is off to a get-together with her former classmates in Chapel Hill, Mr. Drew is down for the night (though he's been doing a little squeaking), and there's fresh coffee. We couldn't make it out to help my brother and his family jump-start their move (we're heading out tomorrow to help), so there's only one thing for me to do...

Yeah, that's right -- time for a writing mini-marathon!

I'm gonna see how much drafting I can get done on the new Wannoshay story, and jump over to the new forest story when I get stuck there. No more surfing or reading other journals. Just writing. And drinking coffee.

I'll stop when Lizzie gets home.

Follow the fun and updates below. And feel free to leave happy, encouraging notes!

Y'know, as a teenager, I never would've thought that this would be how I'd spend a free Friday night... Later!


UPDATE, 8 p.m. -- about 500 new words on "Drinker," and here I am, out of coffee already:


Thanks to buddy Greg van Eekhout for the photo idea...!

UPDATE, 9 p.m. -- 1,000 new words so far, and this story is taking shape nicely! I'm gonna do another hour on this one, then mess with the other one at 10 or so. Found some great stations on iTunes radio, so I have plenty of good stuff to listen to whilst composing...

UPDATE, 10:13 p.m. -- Lost a little momentum there for a while, and started to feel like this:


But I'm much better now. Added a good 1600 words to "Drinker," and now I'm jumping over to the other new story. I never would've gotten this much done without this little challenge. Thanks for the comments, everyone!

UPDATED, 11:14 p.m. -- starting to get tired now. Finished tweaking the opening to the story (this one is from a longer story I started a while back but lost momentum on), and now I'm picking up where I left off half a year ago. I've got about four good plotlines to figure out here. Fun times, if you can stay awake for 'em.

UPDATE THE LAST, 12:04 a.m. -- Wooo... I feel funny. About 2,000 words done for the night, and some great headway on both stories. Wooo... I feel like this:


Who knew you could have so much fun with a webcam, a journal, and Microsoft Word? It should be against the law! Or something. Good night!