Topic: WC - Daily Practice
Thursday 8:30pm 2Nov06
28 days left for Nanowrimo and I'm wiped tonight. About ready to go to bed but I have written down my goals for tomorrow. I'm up to 2334 words done on my novel for Nano. So keeping at 1000 words a day during weeknights may be the goal for now. On the Weekends I'll try to hike it up to 5000 words or more each on Saturday and Sunday. No goofing off.
Was supposed to go out with the guys tonight but two of them finished work at 3pm, I finish at 4:30pm and one of them was sick. It's all for the best because I knew I wouldn't get any writing done if I'd gone out. I have to admit I had the taste for a beer and contemplated going to Fredo's bar for a quick one but since Fredo doesn't work tonight why bother? After all I might as well get a little fight with my brew. Was supposed to have a coffee break with the Friend today but we never made contact. I'm just so damn busy at work it's bordering on the ridiculous. Of course my month end reports were all finicky today which was a pain. Chant, Mercury Retrograde, Mercury Retrograde. It could be worse, I could be having communication issues with my co-workers. Now that would suck.
The week has flown by like nobody's business. Shit it'll be my birthday in 5 minutes. ha ha!
I made up a little motivational sheet to help get me through Nanowrimo. It has such tidbits as Pep Talk, a few comments to keep me feeling positive. A question, Why do you insist on telling only part of the story? To remind me to get all the words out. The revision comes after the novel is written. We're pros from The War of Art with such reminders to show up every day, commit for the long haul. Nano Challenge - from one of Robert McKee's books - get down everything about the scene including the individual characters' feelings about each other etc. Questions to ask about my characters or the scenes or the conflicts. Something to look at should I feel stopped up.
I actually made and ate dinner when I got home so I wouldn't be starving at 9:30pm like last night.
Had a bit of an epiphany about someone today. I'm used to being the arm's length person. I'm the one who is normally hard to get to know, doesn't take on too many new people in my personal space. I do it because I'm a caretaker and taking care of every little person that crosses my path like their some stray pet is tiresome. I realize that I may have met some one who is my emotional doppelganger. This person may be some one who is loyal to the end and a care taker through and through. When you take care of everyone you don't want too many people to take care of. The only way to control that is to control the new people who enter your life by making it difficult for them. I will have to rule in or rule out that hypothesis because I'm interested.
On that note, I'm going to take care of myself and hit the sack early, like now.
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