Friday, November 20, 2009
Excerpt from "My Disco Ball is Broken" -- the NaNoWriMo project
It's a high school graduation party for Mike, Herb and Louise's 2nd son. They've invited everyone, including Herb's grandmother Pru and her friend Marcie. Jim was Louise's classmate, two years behind Herb at Milton High. One afternoon, years earlier, Louise had just learned she was pregnant again...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Essence of it all.
"What do you know about this Essence thing?" June asked. It was my shift at the library and I had finished turning on the lights, stocking the pastry cabinet, getting the coffee machine ready to serve. There were no customers for me in the little used bookshop, so I had taken a minute to sit with...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I work better outside the spotlight.
It's safer there than center stage. Maybe it's one more aspect of the writing personality. June, you remember her, 91, still crazy after all these years, published children's writer: she says there's a distinct writing personality, but I don't fit it. She declares all writers are neurotic, they have...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Houston, we have a problem...
OK, so I'm not an astronaut hanging by a thread in outer space, but yesterday it felt like it. I couldn't get online. No email. It was like the world had erased itself overnight. I clicked my mouse, I tapped the usual keys. Nothing. The first couple times I tried, early in the morning, I thought...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Oh, I've got bad news about the bad guy...
I'm going to post a little excerpt here in a minute, and please remember it's rough draft, subject to revision. It grew among the 3000+ words I got on paper yesterday. Not quite as many as my record output of a few days ago, but enough to leave my joints crunchy and my body struggling to unbend when...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Well, I did it! The scene that made me cringe.
I got inside the mind of this sadistic creep who went after my character Louise. He enjoyed instilling fear. He ran his knife along her neck. He assaulted her on the bathroom floor while her little girls napped just down the hall and the boys were watching TV in the basement family room. He...
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Friday, November 13, 2009
The writing life...
When I was a kid we lived in this itsy bitsy little village -- about 50 families, 250-300 people. Most men were directly involved in the logging industry, cutting trees, trimming, hauling. There was Talbott's general store and post office, including a butcher shop, McDaniel's Telephone Exchange and...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Pride goeth before a fall. Boy, does it!
My word count yesterday: 361. That's like one tenth of the previous day's. What a slacker! I edited a bit, dithering and delaying about the idea I'm cringing from. I went out for lunch, took quite a while. Watched people. It was Burger King, they have a playroom, there were at least a dozen little...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Yesterday was a good day for writing...
Highest single-day word count yet. Over 4,000. I just got to following a thread and couldn't quit until I found out what was going to happen. Turns out old bland as oatmeal Herb is more interesting than I thought. He's using his facade as a boring bean counter to conduct a bit of psychological...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
An Exerpt from my NaNoWriMo rough draft.
This is from Ch. 6 -- Sibling Rivalry Mike took one last puff on his cigarette and flicked it spinning into a puddle in the middle of the alley. He and a couple of his skateboard buddies were out of his mom’s sight behind the garage, deciding whether to head over to the softball diamond to watch the...
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