Well, I passed the halfway point of my novel and am getting closer to being in the home stretch. Word count at present is 31,402. I readjusted my daily word count goals to reach 50,000 words by the Wed. before Thanksgiving. If I accomplish that, I may keep writing a bit more just to beef up the word count for the Seattle area, but I am just not completely enamoured with this story, not like my other novels. Maybe it will be shinier in January when I reread it, but I just don't feel the love this time around. Lucian keeps popping into my head, asking why I'm not writing about him and Nivalis, so I've promised to do so in December, along with catching up on my much-neglected reading, haiku submissions, house cleaning, yard work, and impending Christmas present shopping. But hey, it doesn't have to be a fantastic novel of astute brilliance. It just has to be 50,000 words long.

Admittedly, I am having fun with parts of my novel. It just isn't very coherant and I'm realizing that while it's fun to watch movies about pirates and read stories about them, it's rather a different matter to write about them. But it's good if I'm getting it out of my system in a NaNo novel. That way, I can refocus on Lucian and his crazy world, which has gotten crazier as the story progresses in my head.

We watched the new James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace" this weekend, and it was pretty good, but not as good as the previous one, "Casino Royale." I'd probably go so far as to say unless you're a rabid fan, just wait until it comes out on DVD. Don't really have anything else coming out that I want to see. Okay, okay, I'll admit a curiosity about "Twilight," but I don't think my fellow audience-goers would appreciate all my snarky comments about it. And I'm not sure I can watch it sober. Might be a good candidate for renting and watching with a healthy glass of whiskey.

And on that note, it's time for sleep. Beli tano! (Good night!)