Well, I didn't really plan this out before deciding to join NaNoWriMo the day before it started. I'm a combination of a Plotter and a Pantser, but more of a Plotter. I've written books without plotting before, and I usually end up with hundreds of pages of a story going nowhere. That's where I feel I'm at right now, half way through the month of November. Since I didn't start with an outline, I feel like I'm writing in circles. I have a plot idea. I think it's pretty solid, b

Today is my two month anniversary of living in San Luis Obispo, CA, and while I'm loving my new lifestyle, I'm still wondering what it is that brought me out here. When I first visited SLO two and a half years ago, I told my friend Kirsten, "I'm gonna move here." I liked the hiking, the beach, the proximity to so many other great towns and cities in California. The wine. The people. The laid back lifestyle. The change. The fact that it was named the Happiest Place in America.