At exactly 00:00 Saturday Morning, I and a group of people who share a passion for writing (and the procrastination that goes along with it) will celebrate the beginning of November (which, by the way, is National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who didn't already know)by talking, laughing and writing while sitting in the back area of a local IHOP. One of our fellow participants has connections (namely he goes there so often that he gets the employee discount) and has reserved this whole back area for us. This is gonna get crazy (what more did you expect from a bunch of writers?)!

Maybe this year I'll actually manage to finish with something that's readable (barring that, finishing at all would be a good compromise).

At the very least, I'm going to be posting up here an excerpt of what I write. Said excerpt will contain our communal character, which everyone who showed up to the Memphis-area kickoff party helped to create. he has the following characteristics:

He...

* is a male.
* is tall.
* likes pie.
* is suspicious.
* is blind.
* has a goatee.
* has an eyepatch.
* slurs his speech.
* likes Skittles.
* is OCD.
* is divorced.
* is a commitmentphobe.
* is a crazy cat man.
* has size 17 feet (and 1/3 of that is toe.)
* drives a tractor.
* wants to be an actor.
* wears tutus.
* is an Aikido master.
* is allergic to goats.

And his name (first or last) starts with a "P".

...One thing that I forgot to add was a challenge that I heard that I decided to go for: THe main character hears someone speaking over a PA system and thinks it's God talking to them. The laughs just never end...

Fun, right?