I was sad to see Annette ended it. She went on hiatus after having the baby. I assumed she decided she couldn't continue at that point. Looks like she posted about it here.

Liz Climo does prints of her work and has a cafepress store. Kawaii Not does a lot of buttons and whatnot for her work.

Thanks for the back story. It's nice to know it didn't disappear for lack of business.
I don't think I can talk about any tv show or movie without a separate thread with spoilers in the heading.

I am interested in if anyone else is doing nanowrimo and whether other writers think it is better to be more public or private. I'm kind of thinking to reverting to using notebooks in part.

I've been thinking about doing nanowrimo, but the snag is that I have a long trip planned for the middle of the month. So I'm still thinking.

Back when I did it before (2001), they didn't have any of this online support stuff. Don't know if I would bother with that or not. [WE DID IT THE HARD WAY, UPHILL BOTH WAYS, YEAH.]

I'm going to have to type it for the word count no matter what, but I don't know about the support thing. I think there is a lot to that study that said that when people talk about doing stuff, it ends up being somehow enough to satisfy the urge to actually do the thing, so they end up not doing the thing, and then there is the being swayed by feedback and other's opinions.
Usually, if I'm working on something, I don't talk about it at all except in the most vague or common way. I mean, if you hit a complete road block, other people are good for the fact they are other people, with hopefully completely different ways of thinking and ideas. Writing for a responding audience is different if you are bearing that in mind, depending on who they are.

I picked up this best selling YA book the other day to see what was popular these days, and my god it is horrible. I really don't think I can keep reading it.

Last time I did nanowrimo, I was just writing total crap for the word count and I think it was really valuable in the discipline of pounding out a few thousand words a day and setting aside the time to do that. It'd be nice to have something worth the exercise out of it this time; I can't remember if I deleted the whole how vampires do home renovation and shop at Costco piece of crap I did last time. The little I talked about it people seemed to find way more amusing than what it actually was, writing-wise. At least, everything can be used for comedy fodder.

This is true. For a large chunk of that planned vacation I will be stuck in a house with family. Definitely comedy fodder.