So I just hit 25k, and I’m taking a break to put on a new pot of coffee, forage for some much needed munching supplies in the pantry, and do a victory lap around the internet.
The official word count widgets are driving me absolutely up the wall and onto the ceiling. I think I would have to literally remove my brain and upload it into a word document to impress that little red square into turning green. Fortunately, I’m writing on a laptop without internet access, so if I’m stark raving mad by tomorrow, I won’t have those goddamn widgets to blame.
Anyway! I’m now only… let’s see… ten thousand words behind.
Wahey! Forward to victory!
Nov 21, 06:45PM PST | 0 comments
Don’t get me wrong- I’m not saying I want to act of creation to be better than drugs or anything (cough cough). It’s just that I’ve taken EIGHT DAYS OFF from NaNoWriMo out of sheer despair, and as of this minute I’m declaring that nonsense over with. As I head upstairs to embark on a three hour sprint, here is my goal: I am going to churn out five thousand words, and then I’m going to go back and reread them, and I’m going to give myself a round of applause. Because goddamn it, I can write… that is, if I can stop bludgeoning myself long enough to get a word in edgewise.
Nov 21, 04:24PM PST | 0 comments
Yesterday I sat in Calculus and slowly, methodically convinced an art geek friend that I was planning on majoring in fine art at the SMFA in Boston- that I had, in fact, compiled a portfolio in secret, and that I had, in fact, already been accepted. This story hatched as simple untruth (“Oh, I’m all set with the whole college deal”) and quietly morphed into an entire future, as a group of onlookers, all of whom knew far better than to believe any of this, were nevertheless at least partially convinced. At the end of class I admitted that, no, I hadn’t actually been accepted, and that, in fact, I would no more go to art school than join the rodeo.
Later that day, a sophomore boy stopped me in the hall. “So, wait,” he said. “Aren’t you going to SMFA? Because I was wondering if you could take a look at some of my stuff…”
That’s what I mean.
Nov 18, 08:09PM PST | 0 comments
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