Monthly Archives: November 2009

Nov
8

The Good Wife

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I was chatting with a friend the other night, and she asked if mr myn was fully supportive of my writing. Turns out she wasn’t feeling like she was getting the support she needed at home.And I thought about it for a while and then I asked him. At which point he shrugged and said “sure.” On the surface such a response may not mean much, but I have to qualify it. 1) Writing is intensely personal. And it can be hard to do. Some days the words just flow, but other days it can literally be like pulling teeth when a scene just isn’t working, or characters aren’t cooperating. He’s always given me the time to write when I needed it – and rarely says anything against it. 2) He’s never said anything disparaging about me “wasting my time.” I have to say, I have talked to a number of unfortunate… Read more
Nov
7

The Remains of the Day

Posted in metaphoric crap that is supposed to mean something deep but probably doesn't, random, regret | 2 Comments
Several lifetimes ago I read the book The Remains of the Day. It had been suggested to me by a man I’d met and had a brief…something with. I wouldn’t have called it a fling, exactly. It certainly wasn’t an affair. More a case of mistaken time and place, perhaps. One of those things where if circumstances had been different, perhaps the end result would also have been different. Or perhaps it wouldn’t have. It’s hard to say. But I do remember in one of his letters that he had mentioned the book, expressing the fear that perhaps we would meet again in the distant future, only to realize in that one moment that we had made a terrible mistake – that we might have wasted a chance at happiness for the sake of practicality. But that’s the rub, isn’t it? Because you can never know what the end result… Read more
Nov
6

Ehhhh….

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Not burning out. Not yet.  LOL. But that Dragon Age game is kicking my ass. Been up *way* too late trying to play it the last few nights. I’m still ahead of where I need to be in the daily NaNo count, but it’s starting to slip. Gonna have to make up some ground this weekend (like I did last weekend). Writing wise, it’s going okay, though I’ve hit a point or two where if I were just writing normally, I’d stop and take stock of what I’ve put down and where I’m planning on going. Can’t do that here since I just don’t have the time. But still. I can see now that my regular pace of 1000 words a day (on work days) really is about the limit for me, at least as far as decent writing goes. Although that doesn’t count any pbp posts or the side… Read more
Nov
5

NaNo? Meet Perky Jerky.

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I’m not sure where to go with this, but hey – if you like meat and you want wake up by eating it, try Perky Jerky. (And wow, does that sound wrong, so on so many levels.) 150 mgs. of caffeine in every…um…stick. Yeah. Okay. I’m just going to go away now. And no, I haven’t tried it.… Read more
Nov
4

Stealth Finalist

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You know, for all my fine words about turning off Twitter to NaNo (which I did) – I popped on a little while ago to find a congratulations from @lynettecurtis. For finaling in the Lori Brighton blog contest. And I was like…I did? *facepalm* Yes. Actually it turns out that my opening paragraph finaled. You can see mine and the other finalists here –> https://loribrighton.blogspot.com/2009/11/finalists.html.  There are 24 of us, out of something like 100 or more, I think. Megan Records of Kensington judged them, and the end result is now I get to send in my first page. If I make it past that, then it’s the first 15 pages. If I win, she sees the first 3 chapters. The irony of it is that I entered it on a lark. Someone twittered the thing with a link, I checked it out and was like…Hmmm…free? Sure! And really, what do… Read more