[RosieCotton]

Huh...Cisco just treed the cat I’d seen in the backyard before - the one that looks a bit like Frog’s cats. I think he got scratched in the process, which serves him right!

I called him off - the poor thing was terrified - but now I wish I’d taken a picture first...

[Lil'freeper]

Omigoodness, I just got hit with a ton-o-bricks-worth of NanoWrimo inspiration. It's my '06 story about the Scouts on their backpacking trip. The trouble was how to tell 12-days worth of a story and have it build toward a climax near the end when the geography of the place demands it happen on day 5. So I used that program with the note cards to rearrange everything and now I think it's worth re-writing/revising.

Basically, day 12 (a difficult ascent up a mountain that starts before sunrise) is a recapitulation of the emotional journey that was the entire trek. So I'm going to break day 12 into different vignettes and use them to introduce chunks of the story that takes place earlier. So getting up and trying to pack up in the dark is going to lead into the ineptness and bickering of their first days together on the trail.