I know....I know. You've probably all seen this by now, but it just makes me laugh. And we all need that, don't we?

In keeping with yesterday's sort-of theme of "What the hell are you talking about???"....I give you one of our nation's candidates for Miss Teen U.S.A.....

Howdy folks.  Well, the month of November is almost complete.  My novel, alas, is not.  Today, I was at a mere 12,674 words of the 50,000 needed. 

But never fear!  I will continue writing this story into the next few months.  I am very happy with the story progression, and I’m just glad I have finally worked on a very old idea.   I uploaded another excerpt today, and I’ll try and make a good effort on my word count in the next couple of days. 

NaNoWriMo was a good push for me to write more in my spare time.  I sometimes feel like I don’t have a very good fiction “voice.”  Then I forget how much I just like to participate in fiction writing, for the creative side of it.  I used to spend much more time engaging my creative brain, and I think I just need to re-train it.  This has been a fun month to write, and I’m glad I signed up. 

Next year, 50,000!!

Ok folks,

In the spirit of "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones".....or however that goes, I am offering a geography challenge!

After chuckling over the previous blog entry, I thought to myself "Gee.....do I know how to find the US on a map?"

ok....just kidding. I didn't think that. Although I did think it was funny that Miss South Carolina, given the chance to redeem herself on the Today Show (or some morning show), made a point to tell everyone in the room that she, and all her friends, absolutely knew how to the find the United States on a map.

Tee hee. The fun just continues.

Anyway! It's been many many years since I was geography major in college. Switched programs before I graduated, but geography was fun for a while. So, I thought - I wonder how good, or bad, my skills are.

And voila! I found http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html

This fun little site offers several geography quizzes. Can you find these places on a map???? It gives you 3 chances to guess, then it gives you a score.

I took 6 tests folks. It was pretty fun. And enlightening. Try it out. Here are my scores:

United States 129/150 (I know my states pretty well)

Europe 85/138

Asia 52/96

Africa 37/162 (abysmal score)

South America 31/39

World 33/36 (should have been perfect, but hard to tell the ocean boundaries)

So, your challenge, my friends, is to try at least one of these tests and report back. Good luck!