Writing Goal for the Day?

[PennLady]

I must have missed that. The windows are open and two freight trains have gone by since the game started, so I've missed a good bit.

I always like the funny calls in sports casting. One of my favorites was a few years ago, a guy had a breakaway on a goalie and scored, and the announcer said of the goalie: "His left leg just wasn't long enough!"

Hey all! happy Opening night for hockey !!!

I haven't had a chance to check in with y'all, it's been kind of crazy. Is anyone doing NaNoWriMo next month? I'm curious if it's even worth a shot. I've thought about a follow up football story to submit for it, but of course here mainly. The deadline gives that push to write.

Like hell words will get penned in tonight with a one aforementioned sport playing on the screen Hope you're all writing well today!

NNWM is worth it if you think it is. Even if you don't finish a story I think it's a good exercise in sort of lowering your inhibitions. Just write and hit the 50k -- it's about quantity this time. And that works a lot, just getting all those ideas out and not worrying about much else. Well, I worry, but I don't have to.

Go Flyers.

DH is reading Ch 15 right now. He's going to yell at me when he's done.

Don't worry Syd. We've got your back.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

DH is reading Ch 15 right now. He's going to yell at me when he's done.

Just tell him he isn't your target audience.

 

[TE999]

Finish one of the five stories I've started.

 

[PennLady]

Just tell him he isn't your target audience.

Hahahaha

 

[PennLady]

Camera story is now at almost 5600 words, in about two days. See when I have time, I can write.

 

[SydneyBlake]

Just tell him he isn't your target audience.

Bwahahahaha!!!!!!!!

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Camera story is now at almost 5600 words, in about two days. See when I have time, I can write.

Yay!!!


And yay Tigers!

I wrote a good bit of my chapter while watching the game. Deciding to do that novel writing thing in November is great motivation for finishing this chapter ASAP. I think I even managed to get myself out of a tricky situation with the order of events--phew!

 

[sr71plt]

Fired off a story on top of some serious editing tonight, but not the story I'd planned on writing. Got the notice on a mainstream short story contest I've won before and a story came to mind and demanded to be written. I'll have to cut 110 words out of it to make the maximum, but that will be the easy part.

 

[PennLady]

Yay!!!

And yay Tigers!

I wrote a good bit of my chapter while watching the game. Deciding to do that novel writing thing in November is great motivation for finishing this chapter ASAP. I think I even managed to get myself out of a tricky situation with the order of events--phew!

Go Tigers! Go Tigers! And later tonight, Go Phillies! And in an epic fail, my cable cut out last night just before the last pitch in the Detroit game, I kid you not. I had to turn the wireless on my Kindle to find out who won, as our TV and Internet had both gone out. Amazing.

Went one for three with hockey (Yay Flyers!).

Actually finished the first draft of the Camera story. Took me until 1:15am but I couldn't stop. I knew if I didn't get it done last night, it would be at least a day or two and that just didn't sit well. I'm sure it needs work and I deviated a bit from the lyrics that inspired me (that usually happens to me with song stories) but all in all, I think it's not bad.

Fired off a story on top of some serious editing tonight, but not the story I'd planned on writing. Got the notice on a mainstream short story contest I've won before and a story came to mind and demanded to be written. I'll have to cut 110 words out of it to make the maximum, but that will be the easy part.

Just cut out those pesky articles and conjunctions, and of course adverbs.

 

[sr71plt]

Once again today I managed to wedge writing a story in other activities (including editing and going to a winery and sitting and watching the mountains, reading in a book, and sipping wine). But once again it wasn't the story I had planned to be writing today.

 

[sr71plt]

Just cut out those pesky articles and conjunctions, and of course adverbs.

I'm rather fond of adverbs.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

After a week or so of not feeling that great, I thought I'd get some fun writing done this morning while Mr. Tat watched the kidlet. My goal was to finalize the first three sections of a chapter before heading out to do some errands, so that I'd be able to tackle an argument scene and some beta reading this evening.

Apparently, the kidlet had other plans for my time. We woke up to find her--and her bedding, and her stuffed animal--covered in dried vomit. Ew. So the hour or so I'd intended for writing was spent giving her a bath, changing her bedding, doing laundry, etc.

I don't get it. She puked and slept in it, without a single cry. Poor thing.

Go Tigers! Go Tigers! And later tonight, Go Phillies! And in an epic fail, my cable cut out last night just before the last pitch in the Detroit game, I kid you not. I had to turn the wireless on my Kindle to find out who won, as our TV and Internet had both gone out. Amazing.

Went one for three with hockey (Yay Flyers!).

Well, boo Flyers.

But I'm bummed about the Phillies. My parents' friends sent the kidlet a Phillies outfit last year, and we put her in it for part of last night. Looks like it didn't help.

We had an epic TV fail like that... in game seven of the Stanley Cup. It was the year Detroit lost to Pittsburgh, though, so I'm not that upset by it.

Do you have NHL Center Ice or GameCenter, PL? We've been thinking about GameCenter, but there's no free preview, and we don't know how well it will preform over our network, given how clogged the lines are around here in the evenings.

 

[PennLady]

I'm rather fond of adverbs.

I don't mind a well-placed adverb. I find that too many of them get on my nerves and often aren't necessary, or they're redundant. Same with "very." I use them in dialogue, though, as we speak differently (haha) than we write.

 

[PennLady]

Apparently, the kidlet had other plans for my time. We woke up to find her--and her bedding, and her stuffed animal--covered in dried vomit. Ew. So the hour or so I'd intended for writing was spent giving her a bath, changing her bedding, doing laundry, etc.

I don't get it. She puked and slept in it, without a single cry. Poor thing.

Aw, poor Kid Tat. I've been there, changing icky sheets -- icky from one or both ends -- at all hours of the morning. Poor thing indeed. Hope she's better now.

Well, boo Flyers.

But I'm bummed about the Phillies. My parents' friends sent the kidlet a Phillies outfit last year, and we put her in it for part of last night. Looks like it didn't help.

Tonight the Caps open but I guess I'll have to follow online here and there. Family gatherings are heck on watching hockey, especially when pretty much no one else besides Mr. Penn is a hockey fan.

Yeah, I'm bummed about the Phils, too, and glad I didn't watch the game. Just proves the old adage, I guess, that that's why they play the games. Sigh. Feel bad for my Dad, too, although he's on a cruise to Bermuda and probably doesn't know, or if he does, I imagine he doesn't care too much. I mena, hey, he's on a cruise.

My parents bought my kids Phillies' shirts last week, and yeah, I guess they were no help either.

We had an epic TV fail like that... in game seven of the Stanley Cup. It was the year Detroit lost to Pittsburgh, though, so I'm not that upset by it.

Do you have NHL Center Ice or GameCenter, PL? We've been thinking about GameCenter, but there's no free preview, and we don't know how well it will preform over our network, given how clogged the lines are around here in the evenings.

We'd like to get Center Ice, we have for the past few years, but we're not sure this year with the cost. We get it for the Caps, and they have 30 national games this year, so I don't know. I tried GameCenter last year but I didn't like it. My feeds were usually choppy and I often had to refresh the screen because it would stop altogether. We'd done that to free up the TV for the kids, but if we do it again we'll go for Center Ice and the kids can just deal.

Another issue is that the games start at 7pm for us, and the kids are still up, so it's not like we get to just sit and watch right now. Still, it's tempting.

Back on topic: probably no writing today with the family stuff going on. However, I did fix up the camera story on the second half of the ride last night, so I think I can get it into the Halloween contest. Then I guess it's back to R&B for me.

 

[sr71plt]

Pushed hard on mainstream edits today and just got one sent off. Meant to get a contest story written today, but I don't know if I'll manage to even get it started. Luckily I have quite a few banked. One should post in a couple of hours that I picked up as a story concept here a couple of days ago because someone posted that such a story couldn't be written. We'll see. Picked a "safe" category--Lesbian Sex (ha).

Did drive down into the Shenadoah valley this morning and no matter what, tomorrow I'm hiking a bit of the Appalachian Trail.

Someone today asked me what how I was going to spend the Colombus Holiday on Monday. I said, "What's a holiday?"

 

[lovecraft68]

The samba is finally finished however, I am sans editor, as it is too big of an undertaking so working through it as best I can.

I give credit to the volunteer editors here as well as people who do this professionally because I spent from 4pm yesterday til 2am this morning on it and am back at it again. I'm aggravated and I swear my eyes are ready to fall out of my head

I'd say I have the Pats/Jets to look forward to, but I don't.

Unlike the rest of kool aid drinking Patriots nation I can freely admit Rex Ryan has out coached us and his team is better prepared. Our defense looks like swiss cheese.

For Columbus day I get to go to Boston and clean out my mother in laws barber shop as she is calling it quits after 30 years.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

My husband, who despises all sci-fi/fantasy/nonhuman stuff, hates watching the LOTR movies. Of the three, he dislikes The Return of the King the most, since it's "the movie with ten endings" that seem to drag on forever.

I feel like the chapter I'm writing is the chapter with ten endings. I think each is necessary, but at the same time I feel that each is completely unnecessary. Oh, how I hate self-doubt.

The samba is finally finished

After watching the Prohibition documentary on PBS, I think your next story should be a Charleston.

 

[sr71plt]

Finishing up a contest story--and then out onto the Appalachian Trail. Beautiful weather up here today. The trees are only beginning to turn, though. Not the color display I had anticipated--yet.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Finishing up a contest story--and then out onto the Appalachian Trail. Beautiful weather up here today. The trees are only beginning to turn, though. Not the color display I had anticipated--yet.

Ooh, have fun. It's nice here, too, and I think we're going to head out to Asheville over the next few weeks or so.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

BTW, Syd? I found out where you got your name from today. I saw a license plate that read, in nauseating script:

Mommy's Sweethearts
Sydney & Blake
​

I'm kicking myself for not snapping a pic, but I'm glad you're such a sweetie.

 

[PennLady]

Got some more comments on my horror story (thanks, sofflabbwlvr!), so will work on that. A bit more on the hockey story as well, so that'll be waiting in the wings. Surprisingly hot here; glad I'm not hiking like sr71. It's fall, dammit, and I'd like it just a bit cooler.

 

[lovecraft68]

After watching the Prohibition documentary on PBS, I think your next story should be a Charleston.

I was thinking more like a Mexican hat dance.

 

[sr71plt]

Came back from the Appalachian Trail hike with yet two more minor category story ideas for the Halloween contest. Have just written one up. Need to force myself to do some mainstream editing before writing the other one up. But first a nap.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I was thinking more like a Mexican hat dance.

Or the Safety Dance?

 

[PennLady]

Or the Safety Dance?

Chicken dance? Macarena? Alley cat?

Hokey pokey, of course, since that's what it's all about.