This is the final week of Nano. I'm holding steady with the word count. I write pretty clean and I'm not much for padding or wasted words, so there more than anything I'll need to add some description. When I go back and read this thing I know I'll see...

Keep in mind, this is the first draft, but this came up yesterday. Leah's having a wee bit of a hard time with not getting distracted: “Jesus, Kicks. I can’t leave you alone for five minutes.” “What?” I asked innocently. “Oh, stow it....

It's been a crazy morning,but baby is napping, I have a raspberry latte (once again, the peppermint mocha was not sugar free, every other flavor shot they have is, at Duncan Donuts) and my document open, so I'm ready to go. So off I go.

I was on the Nano site where desperate writers are thinking up sadistic ways of forcing themselves to make their daily word count. Here are a few of my personal favorites: * If I don't make a wordcount for a day I'll eat a urinal cake, if I do make it...

Just wrote a really nice sex scene. Many writers have trouble with sex scenes, but I seem to have a flair for them. Making love is like dancing. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they make love. This is also true for characters. My Leah...