A glimpse into this past November - NaNoWriMo

I haven't posted pictures in a while, so I thought I'd do a post about this past November through pictures and words. Here is part 1 - NaNoWriMo.

November is when our family participates in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), so we all write novels in 30 days. We go to a local coffeehouse often and write, write, write with friends. Okay, so there's a lot of talking and playing mixed in, too. :P

First, proof of writing/working while at the coffeehouse:

Thing 2 hanging out with the boys and writing
(or possibly playing Minecraft)

Thing 1 doing pass-along stories with some of the girls
(one of their favorite things to do at write-ins -- lots of giggles!)

And proof of playing while there, too. :)

Of course we need sustenance to fuel our creativity.

She looks pretty happy with that ice cream.

We love our local coffeehouse/theater. But we do write in other places, too.

Like at home with a cute puppy snuggled on our legs
but under our laptop . . .

At Starbucks
(where I get distracted by looking at my cute husband).
Ahem.

At home, we track our progress on these
nifty charts Mark makes us.
(Mark and I wrote a novel together this year
and the kids each wrote their own).

The kids won!
Thing 1 surpassed her goal of 35,000 words.
Thing 2 surpassed his goal of 4,000 words.

And Mark and I wrote our first novel together!

At our celebratory TGIO party (several people were missing - I don't think there was a time when ALL the writers were together at once the whole month) :

Awesome kids

No rabbit ears! :P

Zombie picture

I forget what we were doing in this picture -
getting the zombies maybe?

I honestly don't know how we weren't kicked out.

And the faithful adult writers
(again, several were missing).
Yay us!