spryng | What a nice Halloween you have there... be a ssshame if anything happened to it

This weekend was delicious. I've been desperately wanting to have a big old, lots of food and people party for a month or so, and it so happened that it fell the weekend before Halloween, so there was all sorts of fall food and pumpkin carving. To say it was fun would be an understatement. I need to do this more often - but not too often, because it was still a lot of work.

I made so much food: pumpkin curry soup, paleo pumpkin pie, roasted apples, roasted pumpkin seeds, and fudge babies. And

malanai brought something called "apple pie" which is more like liquid apple pie + everclear. Omg. Yeah, I cheated on the whole30. Yeah, I don't really care. I posted more about that here, including the recipes for the aforementioned food.

Tomorrow is the start of NaNoWriMo and I am still at a loss of what to do. I have ~15k left of my current story and I'm near the climax so cutting it off here would both be painful and kill my momentum. On the other hand, since it's so close to the climax, it would be easier to pick up again come December. And it's been a while since I've done a NaNo in full NaNo spirit - i.e., jumping in without a previous draft, without a plan, without a, well, plot. I was going to write a ton of short stories - close to 1/day - but I'm afraid I'll exhaust all of my creativity doing that.

Which makes me wonder if I should do it anyway, to prove I can't exhaust creativity. And short stories are so very hard for me, it would be a good idea to stretch myself and maybe end up learning something new.

But back to the first hand, I was going to at least prepare for the short story extravaganza by reading a ton of short stories and asking my short story writing friends for advice. To start up a list of prompts so that when I'm flailing after the first week, I have something to grab on to.

And back to the other hand, maybe it's better if I don't?

I don't know. I'm just not excited and not being able to have candy corn (curse you whole30!!) is wrecking my style. Maybe I'll get a can of pumpkin puree and make... something... halloweeny.

Anyway, have a lovely halloween and don't get too sick on candy! <3