well that was unexpected...

Michael Crichton died yesterday.

Thanks to Movie Group friend for the tip.

notes from NaNoLand

            It is 21:26 Wednesday 5 November 2008, and I am having my first crisis of conscience over a character death!  Oh no!  I need to keep writing my NaNo, but there is absolutely no way to continue and avoid this character death.  Alas!  I should not have given the old man a name, much less have suggested that in this particular scene he is proudly reliving his glory days in escorting two lovely young ladies to the capital.  I feel as if the only way to make this worse would be to have him start telling the girls about how he used to take the one’s mother and aunt to balls just like this one, and—

            OH GOD NOLDY, I’M SO SORRY.

            I mean I named him “Noldy” even, which wasn’t very nice.  I mean, geeze, one indignity after another.

( musings on how to avoid this, as well as other notes made during the writing process last night )