My brain is in some otherspace these days: the new novel, the current screenplay, the new screenplay, the front-burner editing project, Clarion West, the upcoming Lambda Literary Writers Retreat which Nicola is teaching, and where I will be doing a guest lecture one evening. I have read a variety of books and seen an unfortunately large number of bad movies — most recently New Moon, which at least got us through a couple hours of 4th of July noise, and The Book of Eli, which was so bad I couldn’t even finish it. And some good movies too, in particular I’ve Loved You So Long with Kristen Scott Thomas.
I am inside story. It’s nice in here, but it doesn’t really make for brilliant conversational exchanges with anyone except Nicola, who is inside so many of my stories as well as her own.
Isn’t this a very long way of saying Hello, so sorry I have nothing interesting to talk about today?
Maybe tomorrow (grin). Enjoy your day.
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Write-a-thon running total: 3,405 words out of 12,000. I find myself in the inevitable but frustrating phase where ideas are piling in from every which way, and they all seem either equally good (when I have written a particularly nice sentence) or equally terrible (when I realize that falling in love with every single idea means that the book would be an unfocused mess). But this is how it works for me, I know that, so I am soldiering on. By strict mathematical terms, I am behind on my goal by about 900 words, but ya know, I’m not that worried. Words are easy. There are lots of words in here. Finding the ones that belong together is the challenge.
We’ve been so busy for the past six weeks with Tim moving out, restoring the house to order because he left it looking like a tornado hit it (living room, den, kitchen, and bath are done, still need to do our bedroom, our study, and the basement), and our aide client’s task force and now her talker training that we finally collapsed yesterday in exhaustion (after work, luckily). So today we are doing absolutely nothing but watching Star Trek: NG and DS9 episodes. ST always leaves us feeling restored. It’s the ultimate tonic.
Additionally, we plan on the arduous task of lying on the lawn swing and watching the sun set later. Gonna be one tough day . . .
Too bad about The Book of Eli. Now I know to skip it. I watched “Real Women Have Curves” the other night. It was watchable, but unremarkable and therefore disappointing I thought.
Sounds to me like you are right on track with the Write-a-thon.
No movies lately…maybe I’ll find one today on my one day off from the lookout. I did read Marilynne Robinson’s GILEAD this week. Totally absorbing.