NaNoWriMo Update #3

Posted by on Nov 22, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Productive week this week. Turns out what I need to do is wake up early (just a little after 4 a.m.), write for an hour or so before I have to start waking DH or Frick (Frack sleeps in until after 7), and watch the words pile up. I am way ahead of my pace from two years ago–the year I won–29K now compared to 20K then. Plus, we have all week off from school next week, so I won’t...
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NaNoWriMo Update #2

Posted by on Nov 15, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Slow week. Lots of thinking about the story, but not much typing on the story (as you can see from the wordmeter). It’s interesting what kinds of things pop up, though, when you haven’t done a whole lot of planning. Like Lucy hitting a highway patrolwoman because she hasn’t been paying attention. Or having to dress in scary 80s fashion for a reunion party. Or ending up doing...
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NaNoWriMo Update #1

Posted by on Nov 8, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Things going fairly well this NaNo season, if not for the ennui and the self-sabotage and whatnot. I am about a thousand words ahead of where I was a couple of years ago. Which is okay, but not great. I’d really rather not have to write so much at the very end in order to win. Unfortunately, I managed to kill the stats from last year’s attempt, so I have no idea where I am in...
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Ennui

Posted by on Nov 7, 2008 in dish | 1 comment One of our Canadian friends sent me a link to a touching children’s book, so of course I had to visit. True to form, Mr. Sarcasm had directed me to an online version of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an abecedarium only a Goth could love. It’s also one of my sister’s favorite books–she’s an Eeyore anyway, so I’d bought her a copy for Christmas...
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Yes, We Did

Posted by on Nov 4, 2008 in dish | 1 comment They’re calling the Presidental race for Barack Obama now that the West coast polling has ended. As a country, we haven’t figured everything out, but this year (except for the robocalling and the mudslinging) did us proud. Clinton’s 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling–a great start–and now a biracial man in the Oval Office. Good for us.The job ahead? Learning to...
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