We really haven’t done anything on the wedding planning front this week. With Halloween and NaNo, our free time has pretty much disappeared.

James and I have both started novels, though I’m a bit farther in than he is (I have 3,398 words to his 357). He’s gotten more compliments on his excerpts than I have, though.

In an idle conversation, James asked me how I would feel if his novel was published and mine wasn’t. I said I’d be thrilled for him and I meant it. He thinks he is an awful writer, and that is just not the case. Yes, his work needs polishing, but whose doesn’t? That’s why God created editors.

I would probably have a pang or two of jealousy if he published something before me, but I really would be thrilled. I love to see him happy in a project, and I know that, were he to publish a book, it would be a happy project for him.

It struck me that this feeling, knowing how happy I would be for him, is an important one. It makes me know that I’m marrying the right person. I really love to see him excel.

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