I have not worked on anything writing-related for a week. I had to go to a training in SFO for the day job, and even though I remember the numbing horror of commute traffic - I found that it was worse than my memory. Add to the wasted hours (even car pooling!) 7-8 hours of having my brain stuffed full of complicated information and the impending deadline of my huge school project, and well. . . Tired. Crabby. Tired. I thought a lot about PE and GML, but that's all. But, the really icky part of my school project is over, and I have this week off.
posted by Carolyn @ 11/24/2003 08:39:00 PM Permalink
Well, I am at a point in the story where I have to do some serious brainstorming about exactly how the backstory works. or I'll write a bunch of crap. I guess I said that last post, but, hey, it's still true. Example: how does the bank plate end up with PE? Does someone hide it or has she stolen it somehow? Like that idea. Anyway, I wish this stuff would just come to me easier, but, sigh It doesn't. I think, actually, I am closer to my plotting breakthrough than it feels right now. I didn't get my writing Monday because of training for work. sigh But, I have all thanksgiving week off, and I can get some work done then, in between trying to finish for school.
posted by Carolyn @ 11/18/2003 02:10:00 PM Permalink
I'm at 36K, but about to do a major re-order to add some additional plot and complexity and so I think I'll end up losing the present chapter 1, which I will make up for with a bunch of new stuff, which I haven't exactly worked out yet, so I can't write it yet. But GML is going to have a brother and that brother is going to be involved in the counterfeiting I think. So, I need to go to bed and I need to notebook a lot.
posted by Carolyn @ 11/16/2003 12:15:00 AM Permalink
About 33K for The List. I have reordered some chapters and figured out an additional element for the ending. Plus, GML has a brother and he was going to marry PE! Go figure. I never knew that. That's why exercise is so good for you. Heh, heh. School is a bear, love it but a bear. Should be reading about pyrates right now, but - hey - I'm not.
posted by Carolyn @ 11/07/2003 05:28:00 PM Permalink
32K+ for the List. Things are shaping up well. I think PE and GML are going to be hot together.
posted by Carolyn @ 11/02/2003 09:42:00 PM Permalink
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