1. I cannot speak about the election results here yet. There is too much poison still in me, too much sickness and rage, and I am trying to contain it to closed doors and private threads until I can be coherent again. Just know that I love all of you, and I need you, need you to stay safe, stay together.

2. In true Nora fashion I have restarted my NaNo project three times in the last nine days, because why write 50K words and edit them later if you can just revise the first 10K over and over and over again. Somebody save me from myself.

3. Smashwords, by the way, has a very lovely team in charge–or at least, anyone I’ve ever had to deal with has always been super communicative and supportive. The last person I talked to has done everything he could to resolve things on their end of things. Now I’m stuck waiting to hear back from the other party.

4. There was something else but someone just sent me another post about the protests going on here in Portland and my thoughts have officially derailed again. Off to drink & then to write until I cannot think anymore.