Heather Foeh

For the past month I’ve been getting tantalizing emails from Verizon about the new Blackberry Storm with a touchscreen. I’ve been salivating over the videos and online tours of its functions, so on Friday when it was released I stopped by the Verizon store to check one out. Sadly, I found a fatal flaw with it. The on-screen keyboard is very cool but it won’t work my fingernails. You have to touch the ‘buttons’ with skin, but when you have long nails, it’s impossible to touch the right one! I tried to type several sentences and it was painful - I was only able to get a few letters right.

So, I’ll be keeping my Blackberry 8830 for now, which has served me well and works with my nails.

I was so geared up to do NaNoWriMo this year and I was off to a decent start. My characters were already taking on a life of their own and the story that had been in my head was taking shape. But sadly, I think I was using NaNo as a procrastination technique for my other writing efforts. I’m in revisions on another manuscript and they’re just so un-fun. But that’s really what I need to focus on, so I’m back in the saddle of editing and revising and I’m going to postpone my new manuscript until the old one is up to par. Sigh.

Ooh - I’m just so excited that this day is finally here! I’m ready for this presidential race to be over, for one thing! But I’m also happy to know what’s going to happen.

I went and voted with my husband at lunchtime today. We didn’t have to wait at all - one of the nice things about living in small town.

We’re sitting on the couch now watching CNN and counting electoral votes…

Do you feel the insanity in the air? Yep, it’s that time. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) — the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. In order to do that you need to average 1666 words per day and yes, I’m already behind. But have no fear! I know that I can make it. I’ve done it before (last year) and I’m excited to do it again in 2008. So, all of my weekends and most of my evenings this month will be used up in the pursuit of the written word, but that’s okay. It’s exhilarating!