NaNoWriMo 2011 - Day 9 - Update

Ohmygosh! Can you tell I've not slept in a bit?  Okay-I exaggerate. I've slept...some. Truth be told I can't sleep. My brain won't shut off. My writing has been flowing and it's all because of my husband...Read on for the deets.Tuesday I began writing longhand-advice my husband has been giving me for years-which I totally ignored (sorry Hun).He said, 'You think better when you're actually using your hands"  He says when ever he's working with his hands he could think better. His mind would clear and ideas or solutions to problems would come to him.I was all like-"Well I'm using my hands when I type..." Which would get me a much deserved eye roll and a tsk about how I never listen to him.Turns out-the man was on to something!On Tuesday I stumbled across this article from 'The Guardian', Why creative writing is better with a pen...and so I pulled out one of my gazillion notebook-journal things and had at it.I absolutely love it!The ideas flow. I'm not distracted at all by things like, oh...I dunno Facebook! In one hour I've been writing an average of a thousand words.Go Me! love and journals, and pens,nicóle