Invisible Treehouses

First: Your daily dose of awesome in the form of INVISIBLE TREEHOUSE

Second: I met my daily writing goal and posted the next part of The Wolf Who Eats the Silver Apple on facebook. Today's writing kind of reminded me of why I love writing so much. I was just sitting there, making up an entire world and story out of my head, getting caught up in this character's story, and I had a moment where I thought,

"Shit, this is awesome."

And after this week, where trying to write felt like pulling teeth half the time... well, it was nice.

Third: I went to see Inception, which was actually amazing. I was almost expecting it to suck for all the hype it was getting. But it was just glorious, and I can't say anything more about it because it's just so twisty and complicated and awesome.

Gilroy Garlic Festival

I went to the Gilroy Garlic Festival today. "What is that?" you ask. Well, it's, uh, a garlic festival. In, um. In Gilroy. Apparently it's one of the largest food festivals in America.

While I was there, I ate a garlic steak taco (very good), got a hand-made stoneware mug (named Charles), ate half of a Minute Maid frozen lemonade (disgustingly sugary), and made my friend touch a leather top hat (hi Vicky!).

I also had the pleasure of paying five dollars to climb, then slide down, a giant blow up slide. You know those blow up bouncy castles? It was kind of like that, only much more awesome. I felt just a teensy bit silly standing in line with a bunch of six-year-olds, but it was worth it. And frankly, I firmly believe that everyone needs to to do silly things like slide down a giant blow up slide, or, I dunno, put stuff on your head.

However, as you might know, Gilroy is in California. And it is currently summer. In California. So it was freakin' hot out. And going to the garlic festival basically consisted of walking around for hours outside, in the sun, surrounded by the pungent aroma of garlic.

I don't like the heat. It makes me feel cranky, tired, and disgusting. So the festival was less awesome for being hot and crowded.

It was all worth it for Charles, though.

I've been writing...

...and the evidence of it is here:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

All of those are parts of a story I'm working on call The Wolf Who Eats the Silver Apple. My plan is for it to be in the neighborhood of 60,000 words when it's finished. I hear that's the average for YA novels.

I'll probably continue posting parts of it to facebook as I go.

I Wrote a Poem

Supernova

by Kira Gerbitz

The sun is too hot

I wish it would just go die

go supernova

Today

words at start: 4068

words at end: 4744

words written: 676

sandwiches eaten: 2

socks knit: .5