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November 12, 2005
I Just Ate the Last Tomato
There will be no more tomatoes from the garden this season. It snowed a couple of days ago and they are all nasty-looking. It was very sad. The act of eating the last tomato, I mean. The tomato itself, being a fruit, probably didn't care one way or the other.
However, since every single tomato that came from my garden this year was a volunteer, I really shouldn't be complaining. I'm guessing, however, that I won't be so lucky again.
It may be obvious, but I am a dab hand at stating the obvious, so I shall bring this out into the light. I am not working on my novel. The Hell You Say! I'm not. I have written a grand total of 856 words today. Eight. Hundred. And. Fifty. Six.
I hit the 30,000 mark last night, roughly five days ahead of schedule, and promptly ran out of steam.
Apparently this is pretty much par for the course. I'm smack in the middle of week 2, which is when lots and lots of people drop out. I, however will not. Why, you ask? Because:
1) I am really, really, really stubborn and
2) If I cannot finish a 50,000 word novel in 30 days when I have no job and no classes, I cannot possibly justify my existence. Being something warm for the cats to snuggle with is not enough of an occupation for me. I will write 50K and then I will write another 10K and we will call that a start. And then I will edit the sumbitch because that's what we do next. And hopefully by the time I'm done with all that, it will be summer again and I will be doing Shakespeare and possibly teaching because those are the two things I live to do.
So. Off to write. Or at least to pretend to be writing by poking around the Nano forums and playing games and writing haiku. Like these original efforts that sprang fresh and new from my fingertips this morning:
It had such promise,
This lovely gem of a plot.
Now it's all gone wrong.
My antagonist
Is getting out of hand now.
Kill kill kill kill kill.
thirty K later
I am such a late bloomer
Now I hit week 2
Tootsie Rolls all night,
To eat them or keep writing?
I have gained ten pounds.
Posted by sally at November 12, 2005 07:53 PM
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