Fiddler Show Week and I'm a NaNo Winner!

I did it! I spent the past month working hard to complete a novel. I participated in the National Novel Writing Month where participants have the month of November to write a novel of at least 50,000 words. Last night, I became a winner!

My novel is the story of a family who take their children, and a couple of their friends, and flee the zombie outbreak by running to the arctic tundra. It kind of worked out to be a cross between The Swiss Family Robinson and zombies.

The novel is made up entirely of diary entries from the point of view of the mother. I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. My final word count by the end was 51,144 words. It's only a first draft, and it really needs some editing. We'll see where it goes form here.

This week was also show week for Fiddler on the Roof. It was my first time back on stage since I became pregnant with the triplets. I was horribly nervous, but had an amazing time! We even got a couple of reviews! They can be found here and here. We sold well, and the reviewers liked us! I'm pretty proud of our show.

Now that it's over, I definitely miss my little Anatevka family terribly. Can't wait until I can work with them again.

For a special treat, for those of you who missed the show, here's the bottle dance from Tzeitel and Motel's wedding:

I also have some more pictures from backstage, and from our dress rehearsal. Enjoy!

Our dream sequence during the dress rehearsal.

Me, Dan MacEachern (Motel), and Anna MacEachern our flutist.

My "sisters" and I in costume

My Anatevka family