Category: Writing
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.
*placeholder name
(Oh, and this progress bar only updates every 1000 words, apparently. Right now I’m up to 400 on this project)
- 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.
I’ve been writing in my paper&pen (p&p) journal daily this week, not only life stuff, but at least 3/4 – 1 1/2 handwritten pages of fiction-type stuff. A character sketch or two, a couple little scenes. Nothing big, but daily is better than nothing. Feeling pretty good about it.
Day one assignment of 2YN on ForwardMotion today. Must write a one sentence description & 50-100 word description of my WIP. Mine sound pretty tame so far, but in my mind are better than my little descriptions, so I guess that leaves room for goodness, right?
- Current Mood:
accomplished - Current Music: Chopin Nocturne in E flat Major
- Thinks that God is finding me hilarious lately. I gave up on something, then he sends me tons of it. TONS. *shakes head*
- Ok, I got myself all set up for my online writing class; awaiting first day assignment. So excited that my brain hurts from the bounciness.
Part of the reason I’ve not felt like blogging has been this overwhelming busyness combined with a general ennui caused by the everydayness of said busyness. So I’ve let my brain know that I don’t necessarily have to post life things any more if I don’t feel like it. I mean, that’s what tweets are for, right? Hehehe.
In the future I’m going to use the dreamwidth account for the writing/projects/brain stuff only, and the livejournal for more personal stuff. I’m awamiba either place.
Have you ever gotten to that point where you have been trying to update so many different people about so many different things that you’ve forgotten who you talked to about what?
Yeah. I’m there.
We’re doing all right here. Nick and David have both been asleep for a couple hours now (yes, I know it’s a weird time of day for that) and it’s been incredibly nice. I’ve actually caught up on reading my e-mail without deleting mass quantities of it unread. YAY! That never seems to happen anymore. I’ve also been tidying up my online accounts and such, deleting/unsubbing from things I’m no longer interested in and adding stuff that’s more me.
I still have to clean up all the dead fire ants. They seem to be just about everywhere–they wandered the house as they died. The ones in the bathroom are going to be the hardest, as they are stuck between the baseboard and the row of carpet tacks and the broom doesn’t really do much. I’m waiting on the dustbuster to recharge from it’s earlier cleaning fest (CRUMBS! I hate crumbs on the couch.)
I just signed up for NaNoWriMo. I’m just a bit excited about it. I know it’s an insane time to be doing it (as we may be moving), but it just seems like the time to do it. I’ve been having many writerly thoughts lately, and I do have that dictation software installed…
More news on Nick’s interview: It’s on Monday at 10am at Howe-Baker. The company’s been around a while, the benefits sound like they might be good, and it could be stuff Nick likes to do (he’ll find out during the interview).
I’ve had 44 ounces of Dr. Pepper in the last 4 hours, which may not sound like a lot over time, but considering that I don’t normally have any caffeine during the week…EEK! I’m hoping the bounciness lasts until I get a little further on the scrapbook I’m working on.
Lisa Holcomb 