Wednesday, November 09, 2005
I don't like people all up in my grill!
Oy. There's a reason I don't like working at 7 a.m. Leaving the house at 6 is far too early for any sane person. But... the workday is over at 3:30, so I guess that's not bad. These days, I'm working 8 hours on Tuesdays and Wednesday, 6 on Thursday, and 5 on Fridays. Not bad--the days get shorter as the week goes on. If I can make it through the two long ones, the rest is a breeze. Or something.It's amazing how many pockets of writing time I can find tucked away, especially without having to juggle classes and stuff. I'm actually almost on quota--about 1,000 words behind, but that's not bad. If I could write 8,000 words last weekend, well, a thousand won't kill me.
New challenge for myself. Every chapter, I introduce a few new characters, or at least put different characters into a specific context. The challenge is: every time one of these comes up, I make them all relate somehow. Like, the other day, I wrote in all the characters with Gilmore Girls-inspired names. Some combinations of first, middle, and last names from the show. No one named directly from there, but the combinations from character names. The next... I dunno. Maybe a specific movie, or a certain context of people in my life, or something. It just makes it more interesting, though, especially for naming my minor characters.
Surprisingly, this year, I'm staying out of the forums. Maybe that's why I'm actually being productive--I'm spending my time actually writing, instead of talking about writing. You know? I kind of miss them, but in some ways... not as much. There are enough distractions without adding to it.
Other than that... not much new. I'm sleepy, and I need to go to bed soon, but that's not surprising, since I was up at a rather ungodly and unearthly hour this morning. Yes, I'm going to milk that for all it's worth. I don't do mornings, okay? Out of the house by 7:30 is bad enough, let alone anything earlier! Heh. I'm sorry. I'll be more interesting on December 1. You'll hear about something other than wordcounts for a change.
Wordcount: 13,932 down; 36,068 to go.
2 Comments:
My comment didn't post the first time.
Strange. Anyways. You are really flying along on your word count. Good for you. I am sad that I don't get to hear it read to me chapter by chapter this coming summer.
God Bless,
Laurel
Lids,
Hey! I agree on the ungodly morning hour bit.
I think you should pick names from their meanings or something fun like that. That is very Alida ish.... J
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