Wish me luck.

2004-11-28 9:15 a.m.

Just a quick note this morning to assure you that I'm still alive. As expected, the novel is currently consuming my life. I only have three days left to finish this sexy monstrosity. I'm feeling certain that I can do it but it's going to be a close shave. I only have a few hours to write this morning before my family descends upon my house to Thanksgiving. Yes, I know that Thanksgiving was on Thursday but my family is weird. We don't let society's precepts dictate when we can gorge ourselves and drink a lot of wine. I'm actually looking forward to it. I made the mistake of buying the turkey yesterday, I always forget that turkeys need 36 hours to thaw. However, I'm not going to panic as I seem to remember I do this every year and so far no one has died of e. coli from one of my dinners. The turkey is currently sitting in it's own person jacuzzi in the kitchen sink.

Houston, we have a problem.

2004-11-23 2:49 p.m.

The good news is that I'm almost done with my novel. The bad news that I still need to bust out thirteen thousand more words. Crap. There are a few places where I need to add some scenes. Plus the novel is pretty much all action and dialog so I can to go back and add some color and exposition. I'm feeling confident that I'll finish but I'm also feeling like my head is going to explode at any moment. Thank the goddess that I've got Thursday and Friday off work and my family is not doing the turkey thing until Sunday.

I warned you people that this month would be all about obsessing over word counts and plot devices. Next month I'm hoping to get back to kung fu, fighting the homelss and regaining a social life. My blog will get more interesting agian, I swear.

I need a drink.

Nothing short of heroic.

2004-11-22 9:32 a.m.

I could start this out mentioning how completely exhausted I am but I won�t. I worked hard on the novel but still need to crank out three thousand words this afternoon to be on schedule. My family is not doing Thanksgiving until this Sunday so I�ve got three days in a row to do nothing but dream and write. Aside from the cat food coffee fiasco I�m staying moderately sane. Yeah, I�ve begun talking to my invisible friends in public places but that�s just par for the course. I�ve got bilateral carpal tunnel, my back hurts, I have a headache and my left eye is twitching uncontrollably � but I�m going to finish this novel and it�s going to be fabulous. I�ve just gotten to the fun bit. My main character is about to be abducted, now I get to decide which characters I�m going to kill off and which ones I�m going to keep. Here�s where things get really interesting.

On a side note I finally saw "Hero" at Laurelhurst. It wasn�t as kung fu-ey as I would have liked but the cinematography was delicious eye candy and I liked deciphering the symbology of all the color changes. It was no "Crouching Tiger" but what else could be?

Side note: the .5 sex scene is when they were interrupted during an inopportune moment. The .5 body count is the near death experience my main character had when she was skewered to the ground. Ouch.

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