LOL and touché, kat!! Hmmm, maybe I can include a folk music forum in my novel, kill 2 birds with one writing stone. BTW, you noticed I did not suggest giving up Mudcat for NaNo, right?

I did tally the word count from all my outgoing e-mails in the last 7 days. It's been a very slow e-mail week due to no chatting with my aunt and no between-meeting e-mail discussions for any of my volunteer work, both of which can make for LONG texts and suck up a LOT of composing and editing time! It came to 1,191 words in 22 e-mails; a couple were medium letter-length business e-mails but most were making rehearsal or meeting plans or were brief follow-ups to meetings. That 1,191 words is almost 3/4 of a November day's minimum quota; since I typically proofread and edit e-mail I could've done even more un-edited NaNo writing in the same amount of time.

I do expect my Mudcat posts to be shorter next month (excluding cut-and-pasted NaNoWriMo samplings).