bitten by a radioactive author...

Isn't that a great line?  It's not mine.  A NaNo buddy from 2007, Mike noted it in the comments over at the Hummingbirds blog a few days ago.  Mike blogs too, not often, but when he does, my goodness, I just revel over his fantastic English wit.  I miss English wit.  Hard to find in California, let me tell you.

When I read his comment, I nearly died.  Yeah, seems I was bitten by a radioactive author when I was a kid.  Took AGES for the radioactive bit to hit me, but from that initial nibble I wanted to write, ached to expel my thoughts and dream in prose.  Then in 2006, Thea told me about NaNoWriMo, and well, the rest I have nearly blogged to death during the last four years.  Over four years ago I started this blog and one of my NaNo friends from 2007 pointed out what I've been missing since that initial NaNo experience.  I was bitten by a radioactive author when young.

It's the only explanation I can come up with.  Maybe it was one of those delayed bites, a slow, protracted effect that went full throttle when I turned forty.  I turned forty, Thea pointed to the NaNo webpage, the rest is history.  Almost all of it's here on the blog, the important bits.  I didn't write anything from May 2007 until that November, when I sort of lost my NaNo mind; a hat trick completed that year, all concurrently, what I said I'd never do again.  Never say never; concurrent is how I'm writing this year.

Writing and writing; yes, I have some healthy word counts, but tomorrow I'm going on a bear hunt.  I mean a road trip; have to retrieve Jay's car from where it broke down not anywhere close.  So there will be no writing tomorrow.  But after the last three days, I think I'll live.  I mean, I survived a radiological novelist injury when I was young, so going one day without NaNoing won't kill me.

I hope it won't kill me.  Bob's birthday is approaching and I'm taking that day off too.  If I can survive a radioactive author bite I can definitely live through a few missed days of NaNo.  My noveling senses will be tingling when I return!