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Still having issues with novel course joy. I can see that further ahead I’ll have almost too much to do in one week, but right now there doesn’t seem to be enough, so I’ve been reading ahead each day and am up to the week five assignment now, which has me working on my setting. I know that my first setting is going to be real world stuff & they won’t be there long, so I’m not obsessing over that portion, but am obsessing over the place that the kids will travel to, which is hard to plan for because, well, I haven’t written it yet. I’m not good with this whole planning thing. On the other hand, I’m not good at finishing complete novels either, so this all about the learning, right?
*sigh*
In other news, have managed to convince two other people to sign up for the course just by being excited about it. That’s good. Real life accountability weighs more than just nebulous online person accountability sometimes. I can’t just quit writing if there are people that can come to my door and sit on my couch & stare at me until I write. And they would do that, too. It would be unnerving. I’d have to write something, if only to get them off my couch. 😉
- Current Mood:
amused
- Happy Binary Palindrome Day!! (01-11-10)
- Typing up my weekend writing progress. dododo
- Have moved all books off of three (1 big, 2 small) kids shelves, moved tall shelf into kids room. Now to put all the books back on shelves.
- Umm…someone from Tuscaloosa, AL just sent us a baby picture. Would someone like to claim this cute, cute baby picture? 🙂
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Now playing: Kim Richey – Without You
via FoxyTunes
I seriously don’t have a better title for this at the moment, but oh well.
Here’s the expanded story idea, from my 2YN homework on Forward Motion:
Amanda* and Charles* had a fabulous honeymoon on an isolated island. Upon returning home, they received stunning news: Charles’ brother & sister-in-law died in an accident while they were gone Even worse, to Amanda, her new niece & nephews were coming to live with them. Charles traveled a lot for work, so he inevitable left Amanda home to deal with the kids, but then they stopped hearing from him altogether. Amanda has to explain to the children that she & Charles don’t really live in the real world and that they must search another world for their uncle.
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(Oh, and this progress bar only updates every 1000 words, apparently. Right now I’m up to 400 on this project)
- Figured out what my novel’s going to be about. Or at least my starting point. Worked last night on my descriptions for the assignment.
- Kids, when you have chocolate-mint breath & brown bits in your teeth & you’re saying you’re not eating my candy cane, I KNOW that you were.
- It figures: I wait patiently all day for the writing assignment, then it’s sent out just as it’s time to pick up kids from school. *sigh*
- Looking at http://curiouspages.blogspot.com/ about bad kids books. Read most of them as a child. So funny tears are running down my face.
Lisa Holcomb 