No links for you

I am happily moving along with my most current novel, clocking in at about 1000 words a day. It seems like a lot, but I have learned that once I start writing fiction, I tend to go for a while, and....

Yeah, I always end in mid-sentance.

It makes it easy to just pick up the next day (or week, or whatever my schedule allows) and plunge right back in where I was. Other people I know who write say it takes them a while to get back into the groove, but I can pick up pretty quickly, which is a good skill to have when you are writing more than one novel at a time.

The problem is that since I AM into the writing on top of working, single dad-ing and the like...

I'm not paying much attention to the news. I still sit down every Sunday and make fun of it, but it's in short, contained bursts, and tend to get it all out of the way at once, then just ignore it all week.

All of which leads me to my point. There seems to be a different divide in the country that "Blue and Red" It's more people who follow the news closesly and people who just have it pop into their lives from time to time. It shows in cable ratings (big next events, huge viewership, not so much, a pretty standard, stable viewership), and it shows in the people I know. Some are news junkies who can go into painful detail about what was on talk radio or NPR or whatever, and some barely know who the Governor is. And while we are told it's our duty to know before we vote...in our manic work world, who has time? We push ourselves to do more at work and with more scheduling at home...and our news coverage is no longer giving us actual facts, they give us two opinions and let us sort it out.

So, No Links Today.

But my novel is doing well, thanks for asking.