Hey all -- haven't really gotten any work done on the novel yet today, but I did come home and sleep for a few hours, so hopefully I'll have the energy to buckle down and make some gains on it right now. Shooting for 8K+ before I sleep, but I'll be thrilled if I break 9K. We'll see. I did update the word count and post an excerpt in my user profile, though, so feel free to have a look at that. I'll post a much longer excerpt RIGHT HERE IN THE BLOG this weekend! Or maybe I'll post it on Scary-Crayon. I dunno. In any case, I will be posting that somewhere. Soon. So stay tuned!

And do feel free to comment on my "political" ramblings below -- I'd like to know that at least something in there made sense. 🙂