November 27, 2006
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Early Christmas
The boys and I have an early Christmas this year. Yes, it's happening, and I want you to all sit down for this I know it will be a shock. We have a new television.
We lived for almost a year with no television at all, then Mary gave us a small television dvd combo.
Now, in large part thanks to another kind gift, we have a new "regular sized" tv that *I* can see from across the room. So after three years, we are plugged back in to culture.
Merry Christmas to us!(I have not broken down to order cable. I could only go so far at a time and then well, lets just say baby steps works better than stroke recovery.)
Writing
I didn't quite make 5,000 words yesterday. I wrote 4,600 though.
I had an awkward moment yesterday when I suddenly realized that the book is boring. Too much of it is semi-borrowed from my own life, which is ... boring. There's nothing here that people would want to read about!
Despair.
58,000 boring words.
Gloom.
THEN, I realized that I had a truffle awaiting my attentions the moment I finished the chapter I was working on. SO I finished it. I had the kahlua truffle. And it didn't matter anymore whether the book was exciting.
Probably, I shouldn't have started the day with so much caffeine. Sure it enables me to write like a "Jack rabbit on crack" (Mary's phrase - she gets credit) but I can't say that all that speed improves the quality, and when the coffee wears off ... it's just not pretty.
Four days left until the sun sets on November 2006. I can do it, yes I can.
Comments (7)
Yes...baby steps work...with everything.
You'll get there...I know you will...
Psst...a little secret...what you think is boring...someone else will find utterly facinating!
Ditto what Rainbow said...you may think it's boring but don't count on others to.
My favorite sentence here was "THEN, I realized that I had a truffle awaiting my attentions the moment I finished the chapter I was working on." Too, too funny and too true, for me.
You can do it. I have no tv. smile, Judi
Seems so long since I visited you I feel i can't quite remember what i knew about you but it seems you are writing a story, is this for a task, or are you hoping to publish. Sorry to be so long but you are on my list ,so i must have been in contact before ,just cannot place you. Old Age!!! Cheers Marj
I've decided ultimately and perhaps untimely to give up on NaNo. November is just a horrific time for me. When I think about trying to fit the time in I almost have a panic attack. I plan to finish my novel that I started over Winter break but right now . . . I just have a ton of other stuff to do. So that was fun while it lasted.
what the 2 and 3 people said
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