Jennie - you GO girl! I keep checking the word counts, waiting for you to pass 50K - you're almost there!!! WHOO HOO!!!!!
Kate - ummmm, you haven't read Chapter 10 yet (I can email it to you if you're interested, not sure when I'll post it) so if you think you're mad at Darci, now, well, it gets about 100X worse. I TOLD you she wasn't just spoiled!!! *g* I believe "evil manipulative b**ch" was the phrase I used. LOL. ANd I think it's great that you've made a decision and you're going with it. The word count isn't so much the issue as writing everyday anyway, and if giving it up inspires you to write - then that's great. And the fact that you're sitting down and writing every day is what matters. Remember, there are those who signed up and have not written one word.
I didn't get anywhere near as much writing done as I wanted to this weekend on Nanowrimo. Marc decided to stop talking to me. *sigh* I figured this was going to happen. Up until now each chapter was a flashback. So, Chapters 1 -9 take place over the course of 10 years and give us the back story. Chapter 10, both Marc and Darci were very adamant about what was to happen. I'm halfway through Chapter 11, and Marc's being pretty quiet now thet we're finally actually in the present and not the past. It's scary because I've made it this far (34,308 words - 70% of the way there) and I am not sure that I'm going to be able to finish. *sigh* But Marc is soooooo quiet all of a sudden!
Oh! And get THIS! So, I always knew that Marc moved to "the country." At one point it was Vermont but then he (and therefore I) realized that it still needed to be commuting distance away from NYC. So, I'm thinking Connecticut. Well, on Saturday it came time to firmly decide where he moved to. And do you want to know where he told me he had moved to? Ossining! He is INSISTING that he live just outside of Ossining. He won't accept Peekskill or Poughkeepsie. Nope, it has to be Ossining. Which makes me feel like a loser because that makes me feel like Trixie runs my life. And it's not nice to think that your life is being run by a fictional forever-14 girl detective. *sigh*
But, as Nanowrimo dried up, Brian did start talking to me, so I've got a really good start on CWP#8. For those of you who don't know, I use all of the items (I don't cheat and drop one) and I use one item from every previous CWP. So, now that we're on #8, the list is crowded. But in 3 pages I've managed to use 14 elements already! It's all about combining things - like wearing sombody else's red shoes that squeak! Also, Brian decided to watch the news and you will not believe how many things you can manage to stick into a news story - like the couple arrested for having sex in Central Park with a hula hoop. *g*
Anyway, I need to actually go WORK (UGH!), but I felt kinda chatty this morning so I thought I would babble in you all's direction.
Hope everyone has a great week!!!!
