Hit the skids

For all the energy I started the week with, I must have used it all up over the early days, because my enthusiasm for simply getting out of a chair has completely disappeared. :) Okay, well it's not quite that bad, but I could sleep for a solid day.

That being said, I did sit in my recliner last night and designed a cover for the novel that I'm doing in November. I thought about posting it, but I don't think I will, because the idea is captured in the images, but the people aren't quite the people who are populating this novel. Hate to start minds down the wrong path. But looking at the cover through the transparent cover of my project organizer gives it a sense of reality that I didn't have before, which is a wonderful thing. I need to take more advantage of visuals to help me with this process. I also found a folder with some preliminary work on this book--it was in the computer case I took with me to the OWFI conference (back in May!!! Can you believe it? Can anyone get any less organized than this???) and it had my detailed character sketches that I did using Character Pro 4, so I was very pleased. Yes, there were ideas I had forgotten. I really think that pushing through a novel in a month will help me avoid that kind of "discovery" of good material. It makes me wonder what I've lost that I didn't jot down. But that's okay. Can't do anything about that.

I'm going to spend the rest of today updating the website for November. In addition to daily prompts I'm including daily inspiration in the form of quotes from other authors. I hope they help keep everyone on track, even through those not-so-wonderful days.

I'm supposed to be away from home tomorrow but I don't know that I'm going. We'll see how I feel.

Oh, and I just can't help but add: GO OU!!! What a game!