when "research" turns into 4 hours of clicking and laughing...

Again, it's been a while. This time, however, I do have a good excuse. My husband was hospitalized for a life-threatening condition. I had internet for the 9 days I spent in the hospital with him, but it cut out every couple of minutes or so, and the connection had all sorts of restrictions (it wouldn't let me sign in to post here, for example).

Unfortunately, there isn't much to report on the writing front. I didn't get much writing done in that time. That isn't to say I didn't think about it often (there really is only so much TV-watching you can do, especially in a hospital). I plan on getting my chapter nine finished this week. Well, that's the hope. I think I might have been *thisclose* to titling the current novel, but I was under insane amounts of stress and quite sleep-deprived, so I might have hallucinated almost finding a title. Not sure.

I am completely sure, however, that the titled YA urban fantasy is going to be my NaNo project for this year. I need to do a bit more brainstorming on that one. I believe there will be more humor in that one than in the current one (the current one has some humor, but I wouldn't consider it a comedy, whereas the new one will have much more in the way of comedy).

I was linked to TVtropes.com by a friend, and it is one of those sites that can be incredibly helpful, but is dangerous. Total "Wiki Walk" territory. I can spend hours at a time there. To the point where one friend mentioned that she was going to have to send several well-oiled, muscled men in to extricate me. But still, I love it, and I recommend giving it a little browse if you haven't already. Tropes like Crowning Moment of Awesome, Heroic Blue Screen of Death, Big Damn Heroes, The Reason You Suck Speech, and the Pre Ass Kicking One Liner are some of my favorites (those were just the first few to come immediately to mind). Yes, I use the site for research purposes, but I have a hard time making people believe that, as I spend so much time giggling while reading.