NaNoWriMo word count as of day 4: 8478. When I first started blogging The Wife told me that I was wasting a lot of time and words that could have been going toward The Great American Novel, or at least, a novel anyway. But the fact of the matter is that most of my blog posts clock in around three hundred words-more or less. Still, over the past few years I could have amassed enough words for a novel or two. The main difference between a novel and blogging, for me anyway, is that a novel has an ongoing thread.…