I made some progress last night on the novel. At about midnight, I thought of a couple of life experiences I wanted to draw from but couldn’t remember the details. Specifically the internship I had during my first quarter at USC. I looked through my journals, put them in chronological order, and was surprised toContinue reading “Reference material”
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On schedule
And by on schedule I mean I’ve reached the point when I feel like quitting my 30-day novel exercise. I’m woefully behind in my word count. Awfully far behind considering it’s the sixth day. I’ve got about 3,000 words and I should have 10,000. I’m hitting “word count” after each 100 words and thinking there’sContinue reading “On schedule”
Already behind
I’m in stage four of a mild cold: sinus congestion. (stages 1-3 are: throat sensitivity, sneezing and sore throat). I don’t think I’m going to be getting any worse. I planned to take yesterday off as a sick day to take my dog to the dentist. I consider this a completely appropriate use of sickContinue reading “Already behind”
Reading out loud
I attended the first meeting of my book group last night. A friend of mine attended the last session, where they selected books for the next six months, and warned me that the other ladies were, “uhm… older.” While I’d prefer to socialize with more people of my age group and exact life stage, IContinue reading “Reading out loud”
Spawning thoughts
I’ve decided to do Nanowrimo again. Apparently this is an odd-year thing, like pink salmon runs. I did it in 2005 and 2007, writing a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I had pretty good ideas both years, and yet, each time struggled just a little to make my word count. The firstContinue reading “Spawning thoughts”
Two-time winner
I only do this in odd-numbered years. I’m kind of like a pink salmon in that regard. I might do it next year, though.
Update
About that post below… Just had to get that off my chest. I’m up to 26,775 words now, where I should have been yesterday. So I’m only a day behind. Moving forward… As in, quitting for tonight, but I’ll write again tomorrow.
Thinking about quitting
Isn’t that awful? I was keeping up very well with the novel-writing this month, and hit 25,000 words on the 14th, a day ahead of schedule. But then I didn’t write anything again until tonight. I have a general idea of where to take the story, but not a lot of motivation to drive itContinue reading “Thinking about quitting”
Unproductive
You’d think with all this time away from work that I’d be making great progress on my novel. Not so much. I haven’t been in the office since Wednesday. I had a field trip Thursday and was supposed to go on an excursion Friday, but decided to be sick instead. I’m still sick, too sickContinue reading “Unproductive”
And a cheater
I’m well ahead of the 10,002 words I need to have written by the end of today to stay on target for NaNoWriMo. But my 6,000-word lead likely is the result of my having cut and pasted blogs written during the past year of dog ownership. I can’t help it. Why try to recreate aContinue reading “And a cheater”
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