Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I have 2 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes, and 20, no 19, no 18, no 17 seconds left to write 4,553 words, which would be fine if I had even one–just one–child-free moment in daylight hours. I do not. And, in this month of November, I have: written two profiles, one book review, copyedited a [...]
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Day 24 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use “”After so many of years of trying to NOT get pregnant who knew it would be so hard to GET pregnant?! Who knew that there are really only about 48 hours of each month in which most of us can get pregnant? Why didn’t they teach us about our [...]
Friday, November 23, 2007
Day 23 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use “Does a person make people?”): How is it some things I remember in such vivid detail, yet others fade away. And it’s always the minor details I remember, the little facts that are so unimportant. I remember my room perfectly: it was a pantheon to gender neutrality. Both my [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Today I finished a copyedit job, made two kinds of cranberry sauce, made two kinds of spiced nuts, a pumpkin layer cake (from scratch and no canned frosting, thank you very much), picked up my race number for tomorrow’s turkey trot, kept my children alive, and watched two episodes of Project Runway. So I hope [...]
Monday, November 19, 2007
Day 19 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use “There’s no way I’m going to see a doctor about that”): “Trenton, this is my mom,” I said coldly. I prayed my mom would act cool and not like a gushing idiot fan. I’m not sure why I was worried. There was really no doubt. My mom turned into [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Day 18 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use “it was the day my heart broke into a thousand pieces and I looked over the shattered remains, stunned….”) My mom’s day on the set was kind of boring. We had been filming the scene on the beach right at the beginning of the film. The character Sam, played [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Day 17 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use “”Ok, ok, don’t get upset. It’s just a little broken.”): “Jon’s kisses are tiny, like little pecks. But Danny’s kisses… well, they’re the kisses you feel down in your toes.” “Ah, the infamous toe kiss. I seem to recall having one or two of those myself. Toe kisses are [...]
Friday, November 16, 2007
Day 16 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use “”We began the day in the sunflower room”): Jocelyn, though, was always temperamental. Hers was a life filled with daily dramas. She’d storm in and flounce upon the couch, regaling me with stories from school in which she was always the wronged heroine. I’m sure her traumas were real, [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Day 15 of Nanowrimo (challenge: use the phrase “It was the first time I have met someone who could oscillate so quickly between insecurity and magalomania….”): “So,” Mazo asked me, “what exactly is wrong?”The label began to come off in one long peel. I was wondering if I could get the whole thing. “What makes [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Thanks to Zippy, Jennifer, and MTB for the Nanowrimo words suggestions (Zippy, I’m still working on Gordon Lightfoot). Now how about the rest of you? According to my logs, there are at least 500 of you looking at my blog each week. 500 words would be one percent of my novel! Toss me some words/ideas/phrases [...]