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I am finally across the 50,000 word finish line! Yay! Now I think I am going to go collapse. Tired, so very, very tired.
Oh, I can't make it to the write-in tomorrow. I forgot that I have early Thanksgiving dinner plans so if I don't see you before Thursday, brightshadowsky, french_creek & kaiaokekai, have a good holiday and I'll catch up with you soon!
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Finally I feel well enough to write again. Over 2,500 words today. Yay! If I push it tomorrow I may hit 50,000. What a difference a day and a massage makes. I also added an amusing character cameo. Sorry I forgot to warn you, french_creek. I hope I did justice to Randy's radio persona!
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Oh yeah, my pain levels are definitely affecting my writing. The last few days the only time I seem to be able to make progress on the book is after I take a Gabapentin. Bleah! I haven't gone back and read what I've written lately so I don't know how much sense I make when writing under the influence of nerve blockers. Ugh!
I asked my parents tonight for a new Dell Mini 9 for X-mas. It's a really cute teeny, tiny netbook that would be perfect for carrying around with me. I love Sylvie, don't get me wrong, but carrying her 19 inches around gets really annoying after awhile because she's so big and heavy. For once bigger isn't necessarily better. LOL!
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Whew, I passed 41k. This year writing has been a struggle, I think mostly because of my health issues, though I would like to blame it on my story, it is actually coming along fairly well. Hard to believe that last year at this time I was only a few hundred words away from 50K!
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Day 15 isn't over but I wanted to post an update anyway because I finished chapter 8. I'm not happy with chapter 8 so it will probably be rewritten when I go back and edit. So far it was the hardest chapter to write. I've given a lot of thought to how Evie will react in the future and what will happen to her but had no idea what was going to happen to Keelby - where she was going to live, who was going to help, etc. Luckily I thought of some things in the process of finishing the chapter this morning and Kaiaokekai gave me some ideas last night. It helps when someone has actually read what I've written so they know exactly where the characters are. Evie's parents are going to take Keelby/Kelly in since she's new to town and a "friend" of their missing daughter, Evie. She is going to volunteer at the College library so she can stay close to the mirror and she will probably continue to tutor a young Belle. Belle suspects something is amiss with "Kelly" but she will never be able to prove anything. Also "Kelly" will make enemies of Lavonda as the younger, wealthier girl tries to discredit "Kelly."
Okay, back to writing. Oh and I think Kaiaokekai's guava and passion fruit sorbet is nearly done.
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Yesterday was a terrible writing day - I think I wrote just over 500 words. I just felt ill and headachey (is that a word?), most likely from the weather. Today was better. I'm past the 35,000 word mark and finished chapter 7 and while it's shorter than any of the previous ones I think it will be the trend of the second half of the book as I switch back and forth between Evie's point of view and Keelby's. I learned a lot about a young Evie during this chapter and how her experiences in the future changes her and makes her the complex woman she's to become. I'm also having a lot of fun quoting or referencing popular literature of the 1940's. LOL!
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I have finally completed chapter six and Keelby is in the past. I made her swoon when she realized it just for french_creek. LOL! Chapter seven will begin Evie's story. I will probably alternate viewpoints from now until they return to their own time lines just to keep their stories straight. As of right now I am working completely without an outline. Bleah! Maybe I can write one during my lunch hour tomorrow.
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I have passed the half-way mark. Yay! My characters have completely gone off script and are no longer following the outline, which would be a problem other than my chapter five outline was very bare and needed some beefing up. Keelby is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about her grandmother which means she'll be switching places with Evie very soon. It's scheduled for the end of chapter six and I'm about half way through chapter five right now. I think there are more than enough hints about what's going to happen but hope that the reader is still going to be a bit surprised when it actually happens.
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I'm actually getting some writing done today even though my mind is on other things, mostly aromatherapy (I'm trying some new things - scented vinegar as a hair rinse and as a fabric softener alternative - as well as trying to get my guest room/closet cleaned up enough to be a cat free zone for creating aromatherapy products). Yay for the writing, though! Yesterday I had no motivation and my characters were just slogging along through the plot I set for them. Today they had some surprises in for me so that has helped. I just finished Chapter Four and will be posting it in a moment.
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I did a lot of procrastination today - rearranging furniture, reshelving books and alphabetizing them, even read a short story. I'm still feeling generally bleah and I have to work in the morning. Sigh. I did learn something new about Lorita, though. She is a closet alcoholic so that adds yet another layer of dysfunction to my characters and their relationship.
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I'm still behind where I want to be and where I was at this time last year. I'm just not feeling that great. I keep hoping it's just allergies but it might be more than that since my stomach now hurts. I did get a new mask for my CPAP machine so hopefully tonight I can breathe with it on without feeling like I'm drowning. Even after just trying it on I can tell that I feel better about it.
The story is coming along though I'm not sure how successfully since it is so different from what I normally write. Ugh! I just hope I can finish the entire story and then get someone's unbiased opinion of it.
Right now I'm going to bed and pray I feel better in the morning.
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2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
3. Include these instructions, and share the love.
Karma conversing with a neighboring cat.
She was much more interested in him than he was in her. LOL!
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What Your Cute Monster Says About You |
 You are a very natural, real person. You're comfortable with who you are - and your spirit truly shines through. You are free of inhibitions and hang ups. Because of this freedom, you tend to be very creative. Your inner demon is greed. You can't help but lust after wealth and shiny objects. People think you're cute because you are so lively. Your natural glow makes you charming. |
I've made some changes to that basic idea but I think it'll shape up to be a pretty good novel. I'm using my challenge idea from last year and all my character names will be names of spammers from my e-mail. I already have three names picked out for my female characters. The woman from the present is Keelby Ogden. Her mother is Lorita Winter and her grandmother, and the woman she trades places with, is Evie Arleen.
The main premise of the novel is that after her grandmother's funeral, Keelby learns that her grandmother was listed as a missing person for several months in the 1940's when she was a college student. Keelby decides to investigate her grandmother's past, to the dismay of her mother, Lorita, who spent years resenting Evie for never being there for her. In the course of the investigation, Keelby ends up switching places with her grandmother through an antique mirror. Evie spends several months in the present, trying to fit in and learning about what the world will become, while Keelby goes into the past where she works fervently on trying to return to the present.
I'm going to try to outline the entire story before November 1st so I'll know what I'm writing toward.
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brightshadowsky and I came up with a lot of ideas and some serious character development today. Yay! Now I need a working title. Any ideas?- Mood: excited
Your result for The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test...
4- the Individualist
you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka "The Romantic")
"I am unique"
Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.
How to Get Along with Me
- Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
- Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
- Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
- Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
- Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
What I Like About Being a FOUR
- my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
- my ability to establish warm connections with people
- admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
- my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
- being unique and being seen as unique by others
- having aesthetic sensibilities
- being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What's Hard About Being a FOUR
- experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
- feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
- feeling guilty when I disappoint people
- feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
- expecting too much from myself and life
- fearing being abandoned
- obsessing over resentments
- longing for what I don't have
FOURs as Children Often
- have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
- are very sensitive
- feel that they don't fit in
- believe they are missing something that other people have
- attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
- become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
- feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
- help their children become who they really are
- support their children's creativity and originality
- are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
- are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
- are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele
The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Harper
SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages
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Did you know that in Britain, fanny is a polite word for cunt? The idea of a "fanny pack" takes on a whole new meaning, doesn't it?
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