As you may or may not have noticed, I’d been a writing slacker as of late.  I decided to use NaNoWriMo this year to push my novel forward.  I really have no expectations of actually getting 50K words written this month, but it’s doing what I wanted it to do:

Getting me writing again!

I’ve added over 2K words at this point, which may not seem like a lot, but for me it really is.  I’m a very busy person with WAY too much on my plate, so writing has had to take a back seat for a while.  This has been frustrating because I love my story and I know exactly where I want it to go, but getting it there has been such a struggle.

I started writing ‘for real’  in 2009 and that was when my high school friend Regan sent me a random message on Facebook talking about the novel SHE was writing.  I still think this was super weird because, though we’d stayed friends over the years, we hadn’t talked-talked in a while.  It’s strange how that one Facebook message set us right back on the friendship we’d carried for years.  I can honestly say I wouldn’t write at all anymore if I didn’t have her friendship and motivation.  She’s awesome.

Did I mention she’s a rockstar? 

Writing has opened my mind up, giving me the avenue toward creativity that I’d craved, but didn’t know how to fulfill, so I’m so thankful to back at it again!  Hopefully, I won’t hit another lull and have to wait until next November to get jump started again. :D

I recently reread The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan and now I have zombies on the brain.

My mind immediately went to how I could help my family survive a sudden virus, zombie-like freakfest.  Yes, I’m being totally serious. lol

There are a few things I decided I would have to have and do:

1) a cement wall that was engineered so that the zombies couldn’t climb it.  Preferrably cement block.  No holey chain link will do!  Though, maybe at first.  Until we could build our wall.

2) fishing equipment (we have lakes), vegetable and fruit seeds, and bows and arrows for hunting – I’ve never hunted before, but I don’t know how to make bullets, so a gun would be useless after a while.  Not that I know how to make arrows, but I figure it would be a little easier.

3) Books.  Lots and lots of books.  I like my family, but I think hanging out with them for the rest of my time on earth would get a little dull at times.  Plus, I’m a teacher, so I’d have to keep education alive.

4) Befriend a doctor.  It would be a shame to survive a zombie attack only to die from something stupid.  So I need to find a doctor friend to move into my compound.  Plus, he could make sure we had antibiotics and stuff. 

5) Lots of propane for things.  I don’t know what as I don’t really use propane, but I think it would come in handy.  Or maybe kerosene?  For heaters.

6) A bunch of clothes in a variety of sizes.  Shoes, too.  Just because you never know what you’ll need.

Okay, so what am I forgetting?  I mean, this is serious business, people! 

Do you think I’m certifiably insane, now?