I say to her, "Rest assured. If there is one thing I am sure of, it's that for every pretty girl there is at least one guy like me who is desperately, hopelessly smitten but is just too meek, too cowardly to ever say a word."

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Unrelated to 'novel' :

I just discovered for the first time on YouTube a video of CAKE playing Sheep Go to Heaven from their September 25th show at Sound Academy in Toronto. The video quality isn't very good, but the audio quality is shockingly excellent.

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As a child I longed to be invisible -- for hours I would climb into cereal cupboards, I would lie under my bed, I would sit amongst the cobwebs beneath my basement steps. And now, as she tells me freely about her would-be lover and I feel that familiar collapse inside me, I can't help but think, Be careful what you wish for...

"It's exactly two o'clock in the morning and I've just finished a large cappuccino. I'm restless and I've already walked my regular circuit -- that routine stroll with the music in my headphones just barely contending with the earsplitting silence of downtown's slumbering streets."

"And to think I used to only pretend to be a pessimist. What a hopeless charade that was."

This has nothing to do with the novel writing, so I apologize if you've come here seeking an overdue update. This evening when I stopped by YouTube I couldn't help but notice something most peculiar about the picks that YouTube recommended for me...


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"XXXXXX's her name and as my car settles she steps forward in that peculiar way at once confident and sheepish. Her arms are crossed, clutching against her chest a satchel bulky and out of place against her tiny stature. Her hair is a faded, artificial red - like a raging fire that has burned down to only embers, I imagine it was once vibrant but ( Read more... )

"Today I am not Mike Moring. Today I am somebody completely different ( Read more... )

I've started the NaNoWriMo Project, although with not such an auspicious beginning. I didn't write a whole lot today, but I did get started ( Read more... )