Writing-related accomplishments: NaNoWriMo continues! I have 20,037 new words for the month which puts me slightly above par — necessary since I likely won’t get any writing done tomorrow — and the words are coming easily. I’ve had years where every hundred words seemed to take an eternity, but this year has been a relative breeze.
In non-writing news, there’s an 100,000+ acre uncontained fire burning not too far north of here. A few smaller towns have been completely destroyed, multiple people have died, more are missing, and the pictures are horrific. As I’ve said in the past, I don’t think I’m in too much danger of a wildfire in Woodland because there’s so much agricultural land around us, but the air quality has been pretty bad since Thursday. The house is closed up tight and I wore a mask to walk the dogs last night.
All that is to say that my throat hurts and I’m not sure if I’m coming down with a cold or if it’s just a byproduct of breathing the air around here. I guess I’ll find out soon.
In any case, I’m either 20,037 / 50k or 46,254 / 80k depending on how you want to count things. I think that calls for a happy hippo.
It’s good to hear the fires aren’t too close to you. I can’t imagine what it’s been like to deal with that potential for months on end.
It’s really only been like this for the last few years, but ugh. I think I’ll still take it over hurricanes though.