Fanfare!

Finished! With today's post, we are finished with NaBloWriMo for another year. Please add a comment to this post, telling what you enjoyed or learned. Or hated, as the case may be.

Thanks for playing along! See you next year!

Three Days Left!

Amazing.

What always amazes me about this project is how effing fast it goes. October always flies by. Is it because it's my busy time of year? Or because I'm making myself busier? Or am I turning into an old coot?

Or is it D) all of the above?

Three more days! You can do it!

Saturday Update

In Martha's World: ginger snaps. Yummah!

writtenwyrdd has the most interesting disclaimer I've ever read. Who doesn't know that reviewers get books for free?

Boop's Babbles is Baking for a Baby.

use real butter shows us the awesome Diwali feast, featuring Kitt and Manisha, as well. Whee!

Author Interview: Me!

I was interviewed!!! Just wanted to share with all of you. I feel so very busy and important. :)

Amy Skips Blogging: Film at Eleven

I blew it.

I, the leader of NaBloWriMo, didn't blog yesterday.

How can you look me in the eye? My respect in the NaBlog community is surely gone.

*sniff*

Updates for October 21

Just wanted to let you know that I work on these updates throughout the day, so if I accidentally miss your update, please leave a comment so we can read you!

Without further ado:

Karen shows us what 35 weeks looks like at the big cozy

Helen isn't quite wordless on The Adamis

Amy shares a link to Gifts for Yule that makes me wish I lived in Denver at groovygrrl's weblog

D. Lynn shamelessly borrows a great plot mapper idea for screenplays or novels at Writtenwyrdd

Tammie camera-dumps and shares a few more thoughts about pumpkin patches (heh) at Irregular Tammie

Rayna muses on the Festival of Earthen Lamps at Coffee Rings Everywhere

Missolea gives us the rundown on Flash Forward at Her Affectionate Heart

high over happy posts pictures of cairns she's spotted while hiking

JEM gets all giddy over crafting Solstice gifts at Jessie Earth Momma

Jen reports on a health scare for her beloved Kaweah (all is well now...yay!) at use real butter

Updates for October 20

Howdy, y'all! (Ooh, an update with a Southern flair. Like Flickr, but with fewer photos...) Updates so far today:

Dancing and musica aplenty over at R-o-h-i-n-i-f-i-e-d

Manisha questions our food-buying habits on Indian Food Rocks

Betts goes to great lengths to make her post today at Damn Yankee

Bird and Little Bird shares a picture of the very secure Mr. Fox

Lisa tells a funny bathroom story at Lisa in California

Charlotte posts some beautiful family portraits at N.E.O. Moms

Pamela shows off the bulletin board she and her family made at From Barbie to Words

Somebody's looking for Halloween costume inspiration over at confessions of an addict

Cruella Collette goes nutty for squirrels (get it??) at The Giraffability of Digressions. And llamas. Whew.

Meera gives us a recipe for kidney beans curry at Enjoy Indian Food

Romey proves a pigeon can be an effective special teams member at Romey's Ramblings

Karen shares pictures of her little elf at the big cozy (and provides a link to the pattern and yarn with which she gnomified him!)

Helen feels out of the loop at the The Adamis (and sustained a couple of nasty burns while feeling this way)

Tammie wonders what is UP with church pumpkin patches at Irregular Tammie

Hart muses on unpleasant blog comments and standardized testing at Confessions of a Watery Tart (and gives a shout out to another NaBloWriMo blogger! Woohoo!)

D. Lynn links up to a friend's blog (featuring lovely dogs) at Writtenwyrdd

tunneling thru gives us a list of the books she's read on the 100 Books I've Read dealio spreading throughout the universe

Helen relays some important info about the power of the internet when it comes to book publishing at Straight From Hel

Aleta writes about how much fun she had attending her husband's high school reunion at Fleur de Aleta

Aaron muses on the transmogrification of nonfiction discourse into fiction. Or perhaps just bloodthirsty Democratic lizard women. You decide over at a stroke of deLay.

Christine showcases some adorably grotesque Halloween miniatures at CANDID CANINE

high over happy shares a recipe for cashew cookies that made my mouth water--and reveals an unknown truth about cashews.

Rayna offers a fun Halloween drabble at Coffee Rings Everywhere

Drowning, but okay

We are more than halfway there! Just under two weeks to go, and we've done it. I've created a habit, I believe, but it is difficult for me to do updates. So today, let's do it differently.

Leave a comment, and we promise to visit the blog post you mention.

Update for October 16

Good morning, folks! Check out the good reading materials below:

Tunneling Thru offers a glimpse of the first Diwali celebrated at the White House

Helen discusses the effect of online writing on the publishing industry at Straight from Hel

Aleta gives some important advice about credit cards at Fleur de Aleta

Aaron shares part three of his Western anthology at a stroke of deLay

Rayna muses on a Diwali tradition (and traditions in general) at Coffee Rings Everywhere

Christine posts a picture of a lovely miniature witch she dressed at Candid Canine

D. Lynn links up to an article about editing to improve writing at Writtenwyrdd

Martha praises future heirlooms In Martha's World

There ya go! Some of these are from Thursday, so if you're like me, you need to get cracking and write Friday's post.

Take the time to visit these guys while you're at it.