Month: November 2007

  • Saturday

    I’m busily tapping away at my NaNoWriMo novel–5271 words, not counting the 10,000 or so I had before I started. I feel like a day trader, except it’s not my stock portfolio increasing by leaps and bounds, it’s my word count!

    Lovely day, today. I went out to breakfast with MaineLady and then all day shopping with her and LibbyK and Mel and IcePrincess.  Plus, I had a coupon for 40% off everything at Christopher and Banks! (Thanks, FluteMom38!)  This evening, TGD and I went out to dinner at Outback Steakhouse. I was starved, so the meal was particularly tasty.  Now, I’m back home, ready to type more of my story. I have about 1300 more words required for tonight. It doesn’t matter if they are good words, but they have to be written.

    DandelionBall wrote a comment a few days ago on my site. “I just visited momof4boys .  She is having a game where people use one word to describe her.  I thought of you.  Your word would be: effervescent.”

    Besides the incredibly kind comment, I thought this was a fun game. 

    It also reminded me of a beloved high school book, Just You and Me by Ann Martin. In it, the main character has to complete an assignment for psychology class.  The teacher asked them to fill in the blank with “not your name, but with the one word which best describes you, which gets to the heart of who you are.”

    Hello, my name is ________________________.

    What would you place in your blank? What word would you use to describe me?

  • Happy __________

    Happy All Saints Day!  Happy first day of  November! Happy first day of NaNoWriMo!

    Yes, today is the day where crazed fools across the world begin the daunting task of writing a 50,000 word novel in thirty days.  AimeeAnne had bribed me into doing this with her, and I’m grateful.  I pulled out my copy of No Plot, No Problem, the official pump-you-up book of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).  I also printed out my Vertias book and reread it to discover it wasn’t so very bad.

    NaNoWriMo recommends not appending any earlier work but starting from scratch on a whole,  new project. I don’t feel like abandoning Christoper and Anna just yet to work on some other book, especially as I’ve had less than 12 hours to think up any new characters or plot or whatever. So, I shall break a cardinal rule and let them send their legions of guilt monkeys after me.

    Feel free during this month to send me encouraging emails and Xanga messages. I’ll more than likely be on the computer a lot, looking for any excuse to stop typing my novel.

    If you had to write a novel (in a month or longer), what would you write about? What genre? What plot? What characters?
    Hunter harassing the trick-or-treaters and my two princesses.