My sister and I spent the afternoon and evening going from shop to shop on Jefferson Street downtown. The good news: not one shop told us we couldn't post our flyer. The bad news: the flyers were really small. They were hand-out flyers--not window displays. And the reason for this is that I didn't make it to Office Max before I drove all the way across town: Not enough time. But at least they're up. And we bent the rules of clean-city aesthetics a bit--we pulled the classic "tons-o'-flyers-pasted-side-by-side-like-they-do-in-New-York" kinda thing. No one stopped us or said, "Hey, you can't do that!" So maybe it'll help. If they don't blow away. ~~~~~ I hit The Independent (newspaper). I'm really crossing my fingers, because The Independent readership is a generally creative crowd. The Lafayette Daily Advertiser--I would think--has a much larger readership, so if we are granted both avenues, I'd hope participation would spike before Kick-Off. ~~~~~ I pick up my flyers tomorrow. --And I do have to pat myself on the back for this--I had 300 Nanowrimo bookmarks printed and cut! I was going to be very conservative and get maybe 100 for the first order. But shoot--who's going to refuse a bookmark??? No one that I know of. I've got dozens of junky ol' bookmarks for off-the-wall causes and events. And I keep them ALL. One can never have too many bookmarks. Besides, people spend MONEY on bookmarks. No one's going to pass up a free one. At least they'll keep it long enough to read what's on it. I think everyone reads their bookmarks at least once. Of course, they're not glamorous bookmarks, or flashy bookmarks, or bright bookmarks, or hip bookmarks. They're actually kinda plain, but they are Nanowrimo bookmarks, and that makes all the difference in the world. ~~~~~ Still no novel ideas. If something doesn't just whack me upside the head soon, I'm going to start getting veeeeeeeery nervous.