National Novel Writing Month

I've started like a good girl, and I'm on track at least for today. This will be the first year out of three that I've actually started on time and closed November First with a sufficient wordcount under my belt. I'll be posting the swaths of draft-zero fiction to my writing journal, dusty though it may be, which is located publicly here: http://corbie.livejournal.com. My profile on the actual site is here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/116849. For all of you other compatriots who are participating, power to you and happy writing!

NaNo story! (presently untitled)

Miles of vellum paper had passed, infinitely soft and dry, beneath my fingertips in the last six weeks... Every time I brushed my teeth in the morning I could see the hours of my life churning down the drain between the bubbles of mint-reeking suds and saliva. And there was nothing I had to show for it... we kept mapping and mapping the contact traces and I was only being able to come up with one single, solitary conclusion: this shit is getting out of hand.
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Wordcount as of November First: 2,052.