With advance apologies to the many excellent housekeepers I know, please disregard the state of my windows. Wait, um, I mean, those are not my windows… Ha! Silly me. Yeah this is definitely someone else’s house and that kitten just looks like my kitten Cowboy. But the point remains: I have hit the 30,000 word [...]
Archive for November, 2009
leap before looking
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, Writing, tagged cats, comfort zone, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
10 days, and the honeymoon? Already?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 10, 2009 | 11 Comments »
It is Day 10 of my great writing escapade, and I have this news flash to report: NaNoWriMo Honeymoon. So. Over. I look back at my bright-and-shiny post from a week ago (Really? Has it been a whole week? What have I been doing?) Oh, I remember, yesterday I pruned a bonsai instead of writing. [...]
a picture is worth a thousand words?
Posted in Writing, tagged Chris Baty, dogs and cats, NaNoWriMo on November 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
NaNoWriMo Day 5, and I am at 5881 words. Behind schedule, but better than I expected. And I am enjoying the process more than I can say. All participants can opt to receive email pep talks from the MotherShip; here is a passage, from NaNoWriMo guru Chris Baty, that sums up part of the appeal [...]
And… we’re off! I mean on! I’m NaNoWriMo-ing!
Posted in Writing, tagged Freudian slip, NaNoWriMo, Scrivener, Writing, writing software on November 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Let me apologize right off the bat for the uncontrolled use of exclamation points in that title. Day One of the Great Writing Adventure got off to a rocky start yesterday, but finished strong and I drifted off to dreamland last night with a sense of accomplishment. Day One final wordcount: 1799. So far, I [...]
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