It's Encourage Rich Day

Rich M., college friend of sister Shannon and periodic Christmastime visitor thanks to the fact that our parents lived relatively close to each other, has a blog here. He has recently been blogging about the National Novel Writing Month, in which he's participating.

Rich is a smart, entertaining writer who's throwing himself with all his energy at the triple task of:
-- creating a novel that will satisfy his internal requirements of coherency and intelligence, and

-- forming the habit of writing every day, and

-- breaking the practice of editing (and shutting himself down) while he writes.

So go forth to Brain Squeezings, Rich's blog as conveniently linked above, and throw him some encouragement in his comments section!

Rich, if you're reading this, say hi to Atlanta for me.