It’s official: I can’t write this book to The Tragically Hip. Life is unfair.
Current Music: Lake Fever (but not for long, alas)
(Oh, okay, maybe I’ll just switch to a film score after Little Bones, then…)
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Gnash Gnash
Argh. A paltry 534 new words after two hours of work, because for some reason I chose to work on a section that required a lot of flipping through books and looking up information, thus not giving me a lot of actual word yield for my time. I should have chosen a topic and just brainstormed on it for a few pages instead. Bad planning on my part. Even taking into account the fact that Monday’s work put me a few hundred words ahead of the game, I’m now officially three hundred words behind where I needed to be today.
Off to run errands with ai731. I’ll have to work tonight after Liam goes to bed, which is generally a bad thing because now that I’m up at six in the morning running around with the boy, my brain dies around seven o’clock in the evening. This can’t become a regular thing.
Perspective
Blessing, burden, blessing, burden. Sometimes the only difference is perspective.
Laurell K Hamilton’s talking about writing and things that happen along the way during the process, but really, this observation can be applied to just about anything.
Liam Update
Liam graduated to a booster seat last night, and ate at the table.
Check out that fork action! (Thank you for lending us the booster seat, Uncle Jeff, Auntie Paze, and Devon!)
Yesterday we also went out and got him new shoes, as his 12 to 18 mos Robeez and size four sandals were just too small for his chunky little feet. We got the next size up of Robeez (18 to 24 mos, yikes) because everything else had a sole an inch thick that wouldn’t bend, or cost too much. I won’t spend seventy-nine dollars for a pair of leather toddler shoes, no matter how well-made they are. I don’t even spend that kind of money on my shoes, thank you very much. I mean, good grief — that’s a week’s worth of groceries. We’ll hit the used kid-stuff store when we go down to visit my parents in two weeks and find a pair of softer lace-ups for him that won’t break the bank.
ESTC Update
Total words, ESTC: 9,993
Total words today: 1,939
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9,993 / 50,000
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I’ll probably kill some of them in the morning. But for now — yay me. One-fifth of the way there. And when I sit down to write on Wednesday, I’ll hit 10K with the first sentence I type, and there will be more minor celebration.
Now it’s off to pick up the boy from daycare.
Monday Again
I’m tired. That’s pretty much all there is to say about the weekend, apart from the fact that I spent time with very good friends celebrating various things like graduation and moving away and belated housewarmings and spiritual milestones, and now it’s the week again and I didn’t get to rest at all. I deliberately spent this morning away from the computer and wrote longhand in the living room. It was good for my back and my state of mind. But it doesn’t change the fact that I’m really tired.
Here’s something of interest for all you author-types who write short novels: the Miami University Press Novella contest.
Submission Rules and Guidelines:
* Winning entry receives $1000 and book publication.
* Postmark by October 15, 2006.
* Reading fee $25, payable to MU Press.
* All entrants receive copy of winning book.
* Submit manuscripts, 40,000 words or less, two title pages, one with author’s name, address and phone number, one without. Author’s name must not appear elsewhere.
* The minimum word count is 60 pages times 300 words or 18,000 words.
Life and Death
Laurell K Hamilton talks about why there’s more sex than hunting bad guys in latter half of the Anita Blake series here. If you’re an Anita Blake fan, you know the issue she’s referring to.