I think I'm going to be sick that day
Oct. 4th, 2005 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonQuote of the day: I shared this quote yesterday in a comment and thought I should share it here as well.
"I knew some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much."
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
And while I'm at it, I'll share this one, too:
"I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Holly. :-)
Synchronicity of the day: Went to Savon Drugs last night to pick up some necessaries and while I was there decided to get some thank you cards. Bette Midler was singing on the Muzak, but I didn't pay much attention as I browsed the cards. I found one with a dachshund wearing a superman cape flying across the card. I opened it up and read the caption, "You're my hero" just as Bette Midler sang, "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?"
Writing business of the day: Being sick knocked me off my writing schedule, but I got back to work yesterday. I'm still really low-energy because the cold keeps hanging on, so I didn't make much progress, maybe 250 words. I don't think I got much more than that today, but maybe closer to 500.
And you know what I hate? When a little plot twist you thought would take no more than a half chapter decides to stretch out over more than one chapter and really screw with your word count. That's what. I'll have to take a hard look at that when Draft Part Deux comes around.
Moving news of the day: So whenever I mention moving and packing to my friends, they all keep telling me they have surgery scheduled for that day. And such major surgeries, too! Kidney transplants, facial reconstruction, hip replacements—and all of them apparently came up quite suddenly and right around the time I'm moving. Imagine that. :-)
"I knew some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much."
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
And while I'm at it, I'll share this one, too:
"I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Holly. :-)
Synchronicity of the day: Went to Savon Drugs last night to pick up some necessaries and while I was there decided to get some thank you cards. Bette Midler was singing on the Muzak, but I didn't pay much attention as I browsed the cards. I found one with a dachshund wearing a superman cape flying across the card. I opened it up and read the caption, "You're my hero" just as Bette Midler sang, "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?"
Writing business of the day: Being sick knocked me off my writing schedule, but I got back to work yesterday. I'm still really low-energy because the cold keeps hanging on, so I didn't make much progress, maybe 250 words. I don't think I got much more than that today, but maybe closer to 500.
And you know what I hate? When a little plot twist you thought would take no more than a half chapter decides to stretch out over more than one chapter and really screw with your word count. That's what. I'll have to take a hard look at that when Draft Part Deux comes around.
Moving news of the day: So whenever I mention moving and packing to my friends, they all keep telling me they have surgery scheduled for that day. And such major surgeries, too! Kidney transplants, facial reconstruction, hip replacements—and all of them apparently came up quite suddenly and right around the time I'm moving. Imagine that. :-)
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:24 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about the moving. We're running out of friends to ask.
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Date: 2005-10-04 03:33 pm (UTC)Dude, I think the person getting facial reconstruction should still have to help you. :)
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Date: 2005-10-04 04:23 pm (UTC)And dude, things like reading something and hearing the same thing ALWAYS happens to me too! It's so weird. *blinks*
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Date: 2005-10-04 04:29 pm (UTC)It's happened to me before and it always cracks me up.
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Date: 2005-10-05 07:26 am (UTC)I'd love to help you move, but, see, there's this cross-continental thing. ;-) Too bad you couldn't have moved last Thursday! Then I could have helped...
(Oh! I stopped in Venice last Thirsday night... kept my eye out for Mercedes like buildings on the beach, but didn't see any.)
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Date: 2005-10-05 09:15 am (UTC)I'd love to help you move, but, see, there's this cross-continental thing. ;-) Too bad you couldn't have moved last Thursday! Then I could have helped...
Very generous offer. But I was sick as a dog on Thursday. I just laid around all day and groaned.
(Oh! I stopped in Venice last Thirsday night... kept my eye out for Mercedes like buildings on the beach, but didn't see any.)
the Mercedes is there, positioned between the cracks of consciousness. :-)
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:01 pm (UTC)Very nicely said!
...and given that Granny G's house once showed up on my way to work, not surprising at all.
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:42 pm (UTC)