From the "This Is Not What 'Characters Taking On A Life Of Their Own' Is Supposed To Mean" Files

[sarkat]

So, it's late October again, the time when, every year I think "I should do NaNoWriMo this year. What do I have that wants to be novel length?" And all my story ideas blink at me and drool like idiots

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[animate_mush]

Pumpkin Coffee drinks are the best. The end.

Write something random and original and let it grow naturally and then out of desperation. Editing Is For December.

You saw how my NaNoWriMo attempts ended up... :P And I'm spending two weeks out of town this November, so it's Just Not Happening.

Good for your characters.

[emerald_moon519]

Largely unrelated to the main point of your post, and for that I apologize, but you can get the smallest size of coffee and ask for half-caffeine. That's what I usually do.

Also, I agree with your previous poster - Pumpkin Coffee drinks are, in deed, the best. :-)

[animate_mush]

Huzzah! I feel so validated! Or, to say it in quotes: "So nice to have my own opinion backed up by a competent authority!" Seriously, it's the only thing that'll get me to drink coffee.

Cup O' Joe, which we have out here, uses actual pumpkin in their pumpkin coffee drinks. Ach, and since it's a coffee-of-the-month thing, I'd better go down and have one before November hits!

[sarkat]

I always seem to find that pumpkin spice coffee drinks SOUND delicious but never are:/
Eventually, I will learn this lesson and stop trying them.
Glad someone likes them, though. Because they always seem like they SHOULD be delicious.

[animate_mush]

Awww - I'm sorry they disappoint. And some are better than others. I had one the other day that was pumpkin and pecan, and the pecan overwhelmed it and gave it an aftertaste akin to red peanut curry that's had lots of carrots cooked in it - it was very strange.

Clearly, the solution is to make your own pumpkin-based things, and Show Them All.

[miatauro]

Kye and Melina should have a story without Lisa.