Classes start next week. Or, rather, class. Here’s to hoping I fit in with all the youngsters. 
Archive for the ‘Writing’ category
It’s Official!
January 20th, 201052,309
November 29th, 2008
That’s the final (official) word count on my NaNoWriMo novel. Between November 6th and November 28th, I wrote over fifty-two thousand words. Zowie! Now the real work begins… editing!
Something Waits Beneath It
November 20th, 2008
Welcome to winter! This is the view of the pond outside my work, looking out from the cafeteria. The fluffy snow is actually putting me in the holiday spirit, which is good because Mom and I are going Christmas shopping this weekend, and Thanksgiving is a week from today. The title of this post is from a quote by Andrew Wyeth:
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
And speaking of stories (nice segue, eh?): I am just a hair over 30,000 words, with ten days left to go in National Novel Writing Month. It hasn’t been easy, writing so much so quickly, but it has been fun. My novel is for young readers (think Harry Potter age). I think that might be the kind of thing I’m meant to write. Hmmm. Well, let’s check back after another 20,000 words!
What I Was Going to Say
November 9th, 2008
November is National Novel Writing Month. Here’s the gist: from November 1st to November 30th, you try to write 50,000 words. You are supposed to start something new (i.e., not use anything you’ve worked on previously), and you aren’t allowed to go back and edit. You’re just supposed to plow through. Even though I didn’t know about this until around noon on Thursday (six days into the competition), I decided to do it anyway. Right now, as of 8:46 p.m. on Sunday, I have 12,745 words!
At first I couldn’t even figure out where to start. I didn’t have even a glimmer of an idea. And then it hit me, and I’ve been on a roll ever since. I hope the inspiration lasts until the end of the month!
Now if only I could figure out how to write while I’m training for Houston…
The title of this post is from a quote by Sharon O’Brien:
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.
