November 2011
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I have hit the philosophical stage of moving. In the time it took me to ride four floors down the elevator with one six foot tall bookcase, I became at peace with the idea of just abandoning the damn thing - and its three companions - to the free table in the laundry room. Because while shouting and swearing is usually a reasonably effective method for just getting things to stupid FIT when...
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TO DO BY 12 PM WEDNESDAY (redux):
I feel like I have spent the entire month of November careening wildly toward deadlines. OH WAIT I RATHER THINK I HAVE.
ALL THE PACKING!!!
MOST of the packing!
Some of the packing
Move files to laptop
Suspend intertubes service
Eat food that is not cookies peanut butter sandwiches
Rent a storage unit
Find out about storing motorcycle
Store everything!
Go to Rocky’s storage unit
Mail things to:...
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TO DO BY 12 PM WEDNESDAY:
ALL THE PACKING!!!
MOST of the packing!
Some of the packing
Move files to laptop
Suspend intertubes service
Eat food that is not cookies
Rent a storage unit
Find out about storing motorcycle
Store everything!
Go to Rocky’s storage unit
Mail things to: self, Rocky
BUY TICKET TO JAPANLAND!!!
Clean entire all of everything
Check out, get deposit, ???, PROFIT.
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AAAAH.
I DID IT!!! AND I HAVE TO BE TO WORK AT 4:30 AM TOMORROW! HOORAY! But it will be the slowest day in the history of time, unlike for everyone ELSE who has to go to work at 4:30 AM tomorrow, because I guarantee that the last thing anyone in the world wants tomorrow morning is a cinnamon roll the size of one’s face!
I AM NOT EVEN REMOTELY FINISHED AND I HAVE STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF A...
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NIKITA versus NANO WORD COUNT versus THE ENTIRE HEIGHT OF THE STATE OF WYOMING versus I’M SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT AND I’M COMPLETELY ON A ROLL RIGHT NOW versus oh christ I have to be to work at 5:30 tomorrow to make all of the stupid Thanksgiving dinner rolls for all of Montana.
Will hit 50K by Thursday.
Will not be even remotely in possession of a finished novel.
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oh god...
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill (via lostsplendor)
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It’s a quarter to four and you’re writing away and having a jolly old time stirring up a terrific argument and the line “I hope you get crushed by an auroch, for all the good you’ve done!” goes spinning into your head, and you’re like “YES AUROCHS GREAT CRUSHED BY AN AUROCH what the fuck is an auroch,” because even though you apparently know how to...
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Panera makes everything smell like Dresden.
Seriously, you people make sandwiches. How can you be so bad at them? And why is it that your coffee tastes more like bread than your bread?
I’m only here because the convergence of the FOOD COFFEE WIFI Venn diagram is pretty damn small after 6 PM in this town.
Easy now, hush, love, hush. Back to the GOOD bakery with the GOOD sandwiches on Tuesday.
MUST WRITE MUST WRITE MUST WRITE....
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O-KAY.
I still don’t know how I’m doing it, but I know what I’m doing!
Sort of. I only need to figure out how to fluff up three years in 9,000 words, when the previous 41,000 covered about six months. YEAH TIMELINE~
Something like that. The goal was to hit 50K by Sunday night, since it’s driving back to Montana on Monday morning, but I don’t know if that’s going...
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Grow slightly concerned about death from malnutrition and/or heart literally bursting in own chest from lethal caffeine intake.
Eat toast and banana for breakfast like a reasonable adult type; accompany with lots of water to rehydrate, and stave off shrivelling and turning brown like a leaf in arid Rocky Mountain desert and nosebleeds.
Spend afternoon revisiting in reverse order every single...
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39K.
6100 words written today.
10K words above par.
Can write about 810 words per half hour, if Write or Die is yelling at me.
Although it winds up being a bit “Scenery? What scenery? You mean this isn’t taking place in the black vacuum of space?”
I have no idea what I’m doing.
This is not a 50K word novel. I knew that on, like, day three.
I don’t think this...
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Trying to explain how magic works:
Realise I’ve basically just explained homeopathy.
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Tigerbuttah and the Musk Ox
beckyandfrank:
This painting is FOR SALE!
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STUPID ~ADORABLE~ KITTEN ATE MY ATE MY EARBUDS.
WHILE I WAS WEARING THEM.
Suddenly, my jaunty Irish jig about the Rocky Road to Dublin was in mono, and I was all WTF? And the cat was all omfg this cord is delicious.
And I was all CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
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I hit 25k last night! It was mainly gibberish near the end. I managed to sort it out tonight, but I’ve hit the wall, and was only able to cough up another 500 words before all my characters started throwing things at me and told me to fuck off, they’re tired.
We’re all tired. Wyoming is tiring. And Colorado apparently smells funny, but that’s okay, because I’m...
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Who has two thumbs?
THIS GUY!
This guy made it from Seattle to Great Falls, Montana in 10 hours flat. Shablam. New personal record. Halfway to Colorado, or at least as close to halfway as I can get without being in a place where my option for lodging is the motel/gas station/bar with a fried food menu that includes Rocky Mountain oysters.
This guy broke her word quota for Nano yesterday, AND got her car all...
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