Sometimes a project takes you by surprise, as in you didn’t even know you were working on it. The project I’ve been working on will not be complete until summer, but it’s definitely made NaNo interesting. And it means instead of writing today I’m shopping for maternity clothes.

Sometimes the best things in life are the ones that take you by surprise and it turns out unplanned characters who turn out to have a pivotal role aren’t limited to fiction.

Happy NaNoing to the rest of you; my project planning is going to have to get reshuffled to take new developments into account. I would love to finish all my planned projects before I wind up on “maternity leave” but will have to see how much is reasonable.