It’s after 22:00 already? SHAZBATT!
It’s not that I haven’t gotten things done this weekend, quite the opposite. And it’s not that it hasn’t been enjoyable and satisfying. Again, quite the opposite.
It’s just that the stuff I’ve gotten done isn’t the stuff that I had thought that I would get done this weekend, which is largely still trying to catch up on things that got shoved onto the back burner during NaNoWriMo. And looking ahead, between family and the holidays and OH CRAP WE HAVE TO SEND OUT THE CHRISTMAS CARDS STILL, the next week (hell, the rest of the month!) doesn’t look any better.
During one particularly frazzled moment earlier today I was reminded of the old phrase, “When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s important to remember that the original goal was to drain the swamp.”
In memory of that thought, here’s a picture of a swamp.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 
So did you win NaNoWriMo? Sorry for being late to the party if you did. I just discovered this blog post because it tripped my google alert about my own NaNoWriMo win from a few years back—a little novel called Draining the Swamp. Did you know that phrase originated from Reagan?
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I did “win”, ended up with about 68K words in November. (It was all posted here every day if you’re looking to read something desperately in need of a good re-write & edit.) Still not done, probably another 20K words or so to finish the “zeroth” draft. I did not know that the “drain the swamp” line came from Reagan. Thanks for the information!
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