The Little Elephant That Could...

There is something about this little elephant that reminds me of that. He is not my best elephant work and he looks a bit tired, but I think that he does look like the little elephant that could. Could do what? I'm' not certain, but he has to be capable of something. I painted him quite some time ago and I know I debated over whether I should post him or not (I can't remember if I ever did), and now he is getting posted tonight. So, he could, couldn't he? Yeah, he could be posted after all this time, if nothing else.

I decided today, that I am going to try to participate in this Yes, I know the idea of writing a novel in a month is a crazy one, but as it says there, it is about quantity, not quality. It's not about writing a great book, it's just about getting yourself to write 50,000 words in a month. It was just a whim. I've heard about people doing this in the past few years and always thought it seemed a bit nuts. What's the point? But I can see a point. It gets you to write and permits you to write garbage. As I said, it was a whim, so I hadn't thought of novel ideas, but I came up with something tonight and got started. I now have 1500 words. I will just say that it is about a 15 year old girl that has been given the year long assignment of becoming an expert on something (anything at all). In the process of her research and learning about her subject, she learns a lot about herself and blah di blah blah. I know I'll never write the great American novel (I'm not that kind of gifted writer), but I read young adult books and I think "I could do that." So, that is what I'm doing here and I'm quite excited about the fact that it can be crap. Bring on the crap, I say. Now I know there's a good chance that my enthusiasm will wane and I won't finish what I set out to do, but I'm going to try.

In other news, I actually watched the Vikings today for the first time in years as I tend to be a fair weather sports fan. I tend to only like to watch sports if the team that I am watching is likely to win. I will admit that. I am not someone that is going to be supportive in the off years. I'm just not going to watch. Anyway, I was intrigued about seeing Brett (is it two "T's"? I'm too lazy to look it up) Favre play on a team that I'm actually rooting for. I actually had to turn the game off when there was about 8 minutes left because I couldn't handle the stress when the Packers were catching up. Yes, I'm that kind of sports watcher;) I did find out later that the Vikings won, so that's good. I do realize now, that even though I set out to watch Brett Favre play in purple, I didn't really see him playing at all because I was drawing at the time. Did I even see him throw a pass? I think maybe I saw him throw one or two and I did see one of the touchdowns. Again, I'm that type of sports "watcher."