We’re inside the two month window before National Novel Writing Month kicks off.  So one thing I have to do is decide if I’m going to compete this year.  It would be my fifth year, so that would be nice to do.  Also, I use NaNoWriMo as a first draft generator.  You know what happens if there’s no first draft.  That’s right — no final draft.  I have to make a quick trip to Wisconsin the first weekend in November, and hubby’s coming at the end of the month, so I’ll have to get it done in less than 30 days again, but I’m ok with that.  I’m sure I’ll play.

Now that I’ve put the first draft of Threads & Ties to bed, I can work on something else.  I need to finish the revision of Twilight.  I printed it this morning and will begin working on it.

I scheduled my GRE for the end of October.  That’s a piece of carrying out the plan developed in last year’s NaNo —30 Days to Regularity.  That’s coming together — the retirement date is set.  The GRE is scheduled.  I’m waiting for Texas to put up the on-line applications for next year, and I can begin that process.  Once I have the GRE scores, I’ll submit the application, request my myriad of transcripts, polish my resume and statement of purpose, and decide who I want to do my letters of recommendation and ask if they’re willing.  I hope to have that finished by the end of December.

Still working the FlyLady.  Still waiting for Forward Motion to finish coming back up after an unexpected hosting change as a result of what appears to be an ugly Jatol meltdown.  By all accounts, FM is coming back up with considerable effort by Margaret and Zette with additional help from several moderators.  I would venture that if you’re hosted on jatol.com and your site hasn’t gone down yet, you’re just plain lucky.  Get your stuff backed up and begin transferring to a new hosting service.  If you don’t think there’s a problem, read the 24 pages of discussion at the link above.  If you are on another hosting service and are feeling smug, when was the last time you backed up your data?  The site data,  your databases, and anything else you run on your space.  This can happen to anyone.  Be prepared.

But it’s time for Twilight work.  Which as I recall, is about cyberterror.  How fitting.