10 1/2 days till Nanowrimo!

What's the next level up from "very very very excited about Nanowrimo"? (Please don't say 'orgasmic'.)
I'm there.
The temptation to write some novel is strong. But I am resisting it. We can go crazy with the plans, the descriptions, the characterising, the plot details, the chocolate storehousing, etcetera etcetera, before November... but the actual 50000 words of story has to wait.

Last night I played around with YWriter, which is a very cute programme for serious planning of novels, so I think it will be very useful if I ever get into serious planning of novels :)
I like gumbos, but mostly I'm happy to let my characters surprise me. In 2004, my first Nano, my MC ended up rowing from somewhere near Scotland to Fremantle, Australia, in a fridge. Sure, why not?

Mum also very awesomely let me read the first scenes from her novel-in-progress, and I have to say, my Mum is a great writer. I knew that already. She's a lot more subtle than me, but.

I like how that implies that I had any subtlety to begin with.

Then we made fools of ourselves trying to pronounce stuff in Xhosa and Montana Salish. Remember Bella Coola? That's also a Salishan language. Still looking for an audio sample of it. The word for man is Kwtmts.

Hey, I think vowels are superfluous, too.