Okay. Enough is enough with this whole piddling around, not getting any writing done. We had a lot of chores we really should have been doing today, but…it is November, and the end of the month is approaching at a fast clip.

So today was all about the writing. Literally. We got up and ate bagels for breakfast and finished off the pot of coffee. And then we packed up our laptops and headed off to a coffee shop and found some tables near electric outlets (more of an issue for me than for Richard because my old clunker laptop no longer likes to hold a charge) and we drank coffee and we wrote.

We went home and ate lunch, and I swapped out the laundry between washer and dryer and got another load started, and then we grabbed our laptops and headed back out again, this time to a new-to-us coffee shop a bit closer to home. We’ve driven by this place umpteen times, but never when we’ve been thinking ‘coffee’, and prior to this we’ve usually just gone to either the places with scheduled write-ins, or to more familiar locations. But I’m very glad we finally thought to try this place, because it’s large and has lots of seating and the coffee was good, and I found a table with an outlet right away, and we got a lot of work done.

Back home, this time for another laundry swap over, and dinner, and then we decided to give it one more whirl and headed back out again. Took a few tries to find somewhere with open tables, but we eventually ended up at a Peets and we drank hot chocolate and wrote and wrote and wrote.

Nanowrimo update: Apparently spending all day coffee shop hopping was what I needed to get the creativity back in gear. Wrote about 7,000 words today, which means that even though I’m not completely caught up, I’m a lot closer. Phew.