I have zero words today (ok, that is now past tense, both today and "have")
zeldaguy wrote to his quota (nine words over, mom!) and princess started, but didn't finish (but it wasn't her fault, there is flooding in a good friend's town, and we got worried about my friend and started calling and trying to get ahold of her--no word yet).
In other news, we met lovely author T.A. Barron. Zeldaguy loves his Merlin books, I bought him the first book in the Avalon series and he got it signed, and princess got a picture book signed... he was everything a role model should be, engaging, magical, interesting to children without being pedantic, and he was SO encouraging when we told him we were doing nanowrimo... it was lovely. Zeldaguy just couldn't manage a word to him, and when we left, I said "If you ever would get to meet Einstein (never mind the time travel issue) what would you do?" Zeldaguy said "Probably faint!"
Best of all, Mr. Barron promised to read emails they sent (personally even!) and wants to see zeldaguy's map of his nano world. Yay! Yay for our heroes, literary or otherwise! He apparently is friends with Madeline L'Engle (lucky man!) and she helped him get pubbed all those years ago. If you can go see him speak, I highly recommend it. Check out
T.A. Barron's website
Ok so I am off to bed at 2:48 am. Yes, you read that right. Sigh. I cranked out the words, though... I'm at 11,861 by my count, and by nano's, it's 12,259.
I hope I get some sleep tonight but since my friend Alyssa lives in flooded-out Sultan, I may be on alert or driving out there to try to help. I think it's taken me a couple of hours longer than it should have to write tonight because I keep checking online to see if I can figure out if her house is flooded. It seems very likely, because the pictures are of downtown, and she lives next to one of the two rivers. Think positive thoughts for her, she's had a very rough year, and this certainly won't help. I hope she got her horses and animals out.