Nope, I did not miss Halloween on the blog because of NaNo. I fiddled, fudged, and called myself a rebel last year, so this year I decided to just flat not bother and admit I do not have the energy.
Gods, that hurt.
So, where have I been? Halloween night I was at “The Mill”.
*DUN-DUNNNN*
To explain….
My day job… I’m just gonna flick a brow and move on. I came home that day, changed into my yoga pants — my protective totem — and sat in my chair-of-many-colors to wallow in my misery, knowing I’d wanted to get back to the blog and yet … *BLAH*. Two hours later the hubs says, “Well, if you hadn’t come home in a funk, and hadn’t changed clothes, I was gonna say let’s go to the mill.”
*perk*
My husband either has really good timing, or he just knew I needed a damned break and pulled the right thing out of the air at the right moment to make me do anything but be miserable — I think the later.
“The mill. THE mill. On Halloween night?” I asked.
“Well… yeah?” he responded with a squeak, as if he didn’t know if I was mad at the suggestion or what.
I was dressed and standing at the door in five minutes. No, that wasn’t a writer’s right to exaggerate; I was at that door in five minutes. We walked…
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And took well over 100 pictures. Way too many to load here.
When we were leaving, my husband went to tell his co-workers that we were out of the building and they had asked him, “Was your wife scared?” Bobby snorted. “Not her.”
Nope. Not me. I was having too good of a time to be scared. I did manage to compose the regretfully abandoned opening line of this year’s NahNo.
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The howl of the wind carried the laughter of a thousand corpses — giggling, cackling, clattering their jaws at me as they sang their torment through the night sky.
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Maybe next year.
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Housekeeping:
This week’s odd search term: “components of a kick ass query letter”
Sorry, but Google did you a serious disservice by sending you here.
Bravo for coming to a hard but realistic vision this year. I have goals but they are not 50k which is frankly impossible with my day job and the 10-day cosplay-construction handicap I am inflicting on myself.
Also, damn, what an opening line! I hope you write that story at some point, nano or not!
I know, right? I sounded like I knew what I was doing for a whole twenty-eight words.
Great opening line!!! 🙂 HOpe you’ll post more pics too! How fun!
Happy Halloween!
*HUGS*
Lisa 🙂
I’d post more pics here, but they’re really boring. The ghosts didn’t want to play. #sadface
That opening line sounds awesome, and I hope I do get to see the pictures you took at The Mill at some point! Your Halloween sounds way more awesome than mine was.
They’re on my Facebook page, minus the blurry ones. My hands shake something awful.