NaNoWriMo update: not so much with the Wri, lately.

My wordcount has been stuck at a paltry three-thousand-and-some for days now.  I'm falling way behind.  This is partly because I've been reading instead of writing these past few days.

Book club is doing The Poisonwood Bible this month, which is one of my all time favorite books ever. So this makes me very happy to be able to share it with others.  But it's been a few years since I've actually read it, and I find my memory a little sketchy as to some of the details, so I re-read is definately necessary.  I meant to finish it before November so I wouldn't have to worry about it interfering with my writing, but I couldn't find my copy, so I kept putting it off until this weekend when I finally found it in a box stored in our extra bedroom.

OMG, I had forgotten how long this book is.  That is probably in part because the first time I read it was long before I had kids, and I was able to read it in a day.  That's so not happening this time!

But I love it.  I've read it so many times, and each time I find some little fantastic detail that I'd missed in all the previous readings.  There is just so much that is good in that book.

And, sadly, it makes me want to give up all pretense of possibly being a real writer someday,  as there is no way anything so marvelous could ever spring forth from my mind and my fingers.
I think wana-be-writers should temper their reading of good work with craptacular works of fiction that have done well.  The good to teach you about writing, the bad to make you think, "hey, even I could do better than that."

Instead of planning or plotting or preparing or any of the other things that might actually help me with Nanowrimo this year, I've been making icons lately.  Nothing like icon-making to aid procratination!

Samples:
 

( and the icon table )






If you find any of them worth using, credit and comments are good things which are sure to summon the NaNoWriMo Fairy to your head come midnight to drop off lots of plot ideas and increase your wordcount. 

I have more icons nearly finished - including several animated ones which I just need to tweak a little - which I will try to post later today.