No Excuses November Is Here

I don't like excuses.  Excuses are me trying to blame someone else or circumstances for my own failures.  But still I catch myself saying things like "I got busy and forgot."  Yep I confess I made that excuse just a few minutes ago when I looked at my documents and it suddenly hit me that I had not written a post yesterday.  But honestly it is not true.  I remembered yesterday at lunch time and decided to put it off and get my NaNoWriMo writing done first.  So it was my fault and I'm sorry if any of you were waiting in agitated expectancy for my post.  
Speaking of NaNoWriMo how are all you novelers doing?  I'm just keeping up with it.  I have a little friendly competition with Della.  Every time I get ahead she goes on a writing spree and passes me.  Then I'll write a few thousand on the weekend and pass her.  It's really funny how excited we both get about it.  Yesterday when I passed her word count I was bouncing in my chair with joy and telling everyone in ear shot that "I passed Della!"  It's more fun when your doing it with someone. 
For lack of anything better to say I have picked out some samples of my writing so far.

"Everyday he pushed them all harder, moved quicker.  He could feel the forest and mountains closing in on them each day."

"Two mountains loomed on either side marking the end of the Salto Mountains.  Between them ran a great valley with flat open land that sparkled green and lush under the summer sun.  It looked like the welcoming arms of Cypress to the tired group."

"They have traveled hard at your warning for six full days now.  We have reached the end and I say they deserve a night to catch their breath and sleep without the forest to bring bad thoughts."

"The grass smelled sweet and comforting, but the way it constantly rustled in the wind made it hard to catch foreign movement.  Kneeling down the Jaden dug his hands into the cool damp earth.  It gave way under his weight.  The grass rubbed against his shoulder.  There, a movement.  Two, no five dark shapes against the silver grass.  The young man froze."

"One of the big men grabbed her up and carrying her back to the corner dropped her down harshly.  As the girl bounced up immediately he hit her a ringing back hand to the cheek.  The blow spun her around and her head cracked on the wall.  She slumped to the floor, her crazy red hair spread over the floor like a puddle of blood."

Yes I tend to beat up my characters.  "I'm sorry Resh."  She is alright I promise.  You all have tons of fun writing and have a blessed week.
Morgan J

Long Weekend

Well I completely forgot that I had to write a post this weekend till Friday night.  On any other Friday night that would have been fine, I would have spent a few hours Saturday and written up a post, but last Friday I was at Devils Den State Park for a weekend camping trip.  Our phones didn't have service most of the time much less internet.  So I'll just give you all an over view of what happened.
Friday night it was just me and big sister.  It was freezing even with a heater and a big blanket.  During the night my air mattress deflated and I was on the ground freezing.  Big sister also had to have a corner of the tent door open so it was really freezing.  Did I mention that it was a really cold night?  And being the brilliant prepared person that I am I had forgotten my jacket and hadn't packed any long sleeves shirts.  So Saturday morning I have to get up and get the grill going in the 50 degree weather in my short sleeves.  I could see my breath in the air, and my arms were going numb.  Do you get the idea?  It was a bit cool that first night and morning.  But the sun came up as it always does and soon I was all warmed up and we went off to find cell service.  Little sister was suppose to join us and we were worried that she wouldn't know where to find us.  There wasn't room in the camp grounds so we were allowed to camp in the horse camp and we couldn't remember if we had told little sister that.  Well we got in touch with her and gave her directions.  By the time we went to the store and got back to camp she was there and after lunch we all went hiking.  We went on Devils Den trail.  The Devils Den was locked up though.  Because of the White Nose Syndrome that is spreading south west from New York state that is killing 95 to 100% of the bats in the caves it hits.  There were overhangs that are not officially caves and we could explore those.  Those were cool.  I discovered that I love rock climbing.  After that trail little sister wanted to go back to camp so we dropped her off and big sis and me went up Yellow Rock Trail.  It was pretty.  No caves but a good view and a funny group of East Texans at the top.  That night was much better.  Every time I would wake up I would think how much better it was this night then it was last night.   Sunday we were going to go hiking in Ozark National Forest but we couldn't find any hiking trails.  We spent the day driving around looking for trails. Though we did get sleeping bags and that made that last night a lot better.  This morning the sisters wanted to head straight home but I wanted to go on around the Devils Den trail again.  It was a lot of fun the secant time.  I got to explore a bit more.  It felt like we were exploring Middle Earth.  I'm already thinking about when we could go back.

Back to real life.  But maybe a 9 to 5 job and bills and obligations aren't real life?  Maybe the trips and the writing are real life and we just have to put on a facade so we can interact with the rest of the world.

Sorry again for being late.
You all have a blessed week.
Morgan J