Writing Goal for the Day?

[PennLady]

It's funny, we've come to agree that the never-ending renovations are neither of our faults, yet we go through periods where we blame the other, and then periods where we blame ourselves. Mr. Tat didn't want to spend a lot of money; I wanted an old house. Put the two together, and voila! You've got yourself a fixer-upper, with major arguments over how, exactly, we should fix it (read: do the work ourselves or hire someone).

As for Mr. Blandings . . . the original has Myrna Loy. By default, it wins. Even if she weren't in it, though, it is much, much better (even though it has some not-so-awesome 1940s racial stuff). Have you never seen it, PL? It was on constant rotation in my house growing up.

Haha, this is why my mom refuses to buy old/used cars or houses. I always think that fixing up sounds good, but the reality is probably not so much fun. And mostly I'd hire someone, b/c I'm not so good at the house stuff.

I have indeed seen it and even used a couple of the names in one of my books. And I'd agree that Mr. Blandings... is far better than The Money Pit, which I have not seen in years and don't intend to see again soon.

 

[estragon]

Thanks, but that won't quite work for following along with the song I'm using. Also, I don't want them actively working against each other. It's about rebuilding, finding a way to start over.

Interesting idea, though.

SA Penn Lady, I'm not surprised Serenissima Syd didn't mention her brilliant move in "How to Save a Life", where she had her heroine Renata find the insurance policy her recently-deceased husband had taken out for the benefit of the lady with whom he cheated on her, and with whom he had fathered a child, and how Rena almost broke up with Mack because of this breach of trust. Serenissima Sys is too modest. Great plot twist in a great series!

 

[PennLady]

SA Penn Lady, I'm not surprised Serenissima Syd didn't mention her brilliant move in "How to Save a Life", where she had her heroine Renata find the insurance policy her recently-deceased husband had taken out for the benefit of the lady with whom he cheated on her, and with whom he had fathered a child, and how Rena almost broke up with Mack because of this breach of trust. Serenissima Sys is too modest. Great plot twist in a great series!

That is a great plot twist but one that I am not cunning enough to come up with. Way to go Syd! Which reminds me I'm way behind on reading that for her. That and other things for other people. Sigh. So much to do and so little time...

(Also, probably more than I need for the story I'm thinking of. I don't want outright betrayal; I want a drifting apart, a miscommunication, a problem that might have been solved more easily had someone reached out.)

 

[RjThoughts]

I SHOULD write a short story on the shopping experience I had this morning: Sales clerks and associates, "Shopping assistant", telling me that I do NOT know what my wife likes or wants for Christmas, in spite of me pulling out a detailed itemized list with specific sizes for specific sweaters, lounging pants, etc.

Merry Freaking Christmas and Happy Fracking Holidays!!!

Now we return you to our program already in progress....

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Banged out another 1500 words on DM3 today. Tomorrow I get to write the sex scene.

Still no word from my editor on DM2.

 

[lance gt]

Despite the pain, I finished ch 47 and well into 48 now. Time to take a break and see if I can ease the misery a bit. They did tell me it was a brutal operation for pain, but I wasn't expecting this much, lol.

 

[lovecraft68]

Still trying to wrap up the mother/son story but have been distracted with trying to create a logo for the BDSM series I am going to Launch in January.

Its the standard symbol for BDSM but I am looking for three small symbols to place inside of it representing Beauty, Sex, and power. So far no luck, but I can't seem to shake it off. I'll start to write then start searching google again and looking at images.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I SHOULD write a short story on the shopping experience I had this morning: Sales clerks and associates, "Shopping assistant", telling me that I do NOT know what my wife likes or wants for Christmas, in spite of me pulling out a detailed itemized list with specific sizes for specific sweaters, lounging pants, etc.

Merry Freaking Christmas and Happy Fracking Holidays!!!

Now we return you to our program already in progress....

It's not often you encounter sales associates who can read minds from such a distance. Meanwhile, I just wish my wife would GIVE me a list. Years ago, she complained, "When I give you a wish list, you always get everything on it, and then there are no surprises." Um, I thought I was doing the cool thing by making all her wishes come true? Who knew she didn't want that? And why write it down if you didn't want me to get it?

So now, I don't bother to ask for lists or sizes. I pick-up whatever feels "right" and hope for the best. My fragile male ego refuses to accept a list from her anymore. If I'm going to be wrong either way, I'll be wrong all by myself, thank you.

Meanwhile, I'm only on version 8 of my stupid story.
* Set aside the behavioral researcher idea for something different.
* Scraped all but the first three paragraphs again today.
* Realized the story the characters are telling isn't the story I wanted to tell.
* Pissed off, closed the document this morning and will reopen it tonight to see if the characters and me can agree on a fucking story. (Yeah, pun intended, sue me!)

 

[PennLady]

Hoping to make some sense of R&B8 and 9, and maybe that will finish it. Not sure. Plenty of other ideas to work on, but for some reason, I am really tired.

 

[SydneyBlake]

That is a great plot twist but one that I am not cunning enough to come up with. Way to go Syd! Which reminds me I'm way behind on reading that for her. That and other things for other people. Sigh. So much to do and so little time...

(Also, probably more than I need for the story I'm thinking of. I don't want outright betrayal; I want a drifting apart, a miscommunication, a problem that might have been solved more easily had someone reached out.)

Y'all are gonna make me blush. Remember Ren's words, estragon: "you're lucky you're dead! If you weren't, I'd kill you right now!" I don't think that's quite the feeling that Penn's looking for.

Penn, does this couple have children? A common trap that parents fall into is they become too wrapped up in their kids and forget each other. Or maybe they're trying to start a new business together, and the pressures to succeed, money worries, time constraints, etc. all get in the way. Or one partner went back to school, and suddenly the other feels neglected. Or one is a writer and never has time for the other. Or it's time for one's 20 year reunion, and it is then that the spouse learns that the other dated the head cheerleader/football captain, and that person is there and H.O.T. and the spouse is feeling inadequate, jealous, even betrayed, even tho the other did nothing wrong....

Any of that work?

 

[SydneyBlake]

!

So you done with that copy editing job I sent you yet?

 

[PayDay]

/PayDay finishes goal

My goal for today was to submit the story I was on. I did. Time for the next one.

 

[lovecraft68]

So you done with that copy editing job I sent you yet?

Tell him I wrote it. He would probably believe you.

 

[JackLuis]

I wrote a 5400 word story to try something new, a sound track to read with. I put a link to Revels Bolero in my story and put in a cue reminder.

It gets me off, so maybe it'll get a reader off?

 

[PennLady]

Y'all are gonna make me blush. Remember Ren's words, estragon: "you're lucky you're dead! If you weren't, I'd kill you right now!" I don't think that's quite the feeling that Penn's looking for.

Not in this story, no.

Penn, does this couple have children? A common trap that parents fall into is they become too wrapped up in their kids and forget each other. Or maybe they're trying to start a new business together, and the pressures to succeed, money worries, time constraints, etc. all get in the way.

No, no kids. I love kids, don't get me wrong, but I hate reading (and writing and watching) stories about kids in trouble, or hurting, or things like that. Too much the mom in me, I guess.

I kind of like the going to school idea, or maybe one of them is trying something new, be it school or business, that takes time away from the relationship and each other.

I want them to be almost but not quite at the point of no return, you know? But nothing acrimonious or hateful; more just some regret, and room to turn it around. I'm such a sap.

 

[SydneyBlake]

I want them to be almost but not quite at the point of no return, you know? But nothing acrimonious or hateful; more just some regret, and room to turn it around. I'm such a sap.

Does she have a jealous/bitchy sister or best "friend" who would lie about seeing her husband with another woman? (Othello-style). Or maybe her mother never approved of him and lied about seeing him/saw him with someone and assumed the worst (think George Bailey with Violet). Perhaps he's been secretive because he's trying to plan a party (with her friend) for her, but the wife's nosy mother saw him out with the friend and assumed the worst, and she told her daughter, and 2+2=4....

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

No baking planned, I'll move the last couple Christmas recipes into next week.

As far as today and writing goes. I'm knocking out several opening paragraphs from my new work. The more I have thought about it the last few days the more I realized that there is a lot in the beginning that really doesn't need to be there.

 

[estragon]

So you done with that copy editing job I sent you yet?

Syd, It baffled me. The prose was so perfect, I didn't dare touch it. Not even LC68, indeed no one on Lit, could have done better.

Returning to title of this thread, I've got 5500 words of a story written, and it's run aground again. I want to get my protagonist and his antagonist into bed, but I can't decide if I want a really good fuck or a disastrous flop, or just have them both back out at the last minute. My goal is to figure something out.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Syd, It baffled me. The prose was so perfect, I didn't dare touch it. Not even LC68, indeed no one on Lit, could have done better.

Returning to title of this thread, I've got 5500 words of a story written, and it's run aground again. I want to get my protagonist and his antagonist into bed, but I can't decide if I want a really good fuck or a disastrous flop, or just have them both back out at the last minute. My goal is to figure something out.

Check it again. Sydney is the Amazon.Com for adverbs.

 

[PennLady]

Does she have a jealous/bitchy sister or best "friend" who would lie about seeing her husband with another woman? (Othello-style). Or maybe her mother never approved of him and lied about seeing him/saw him with someone and assumed the worst (think George Bailey with Violet). Perhaps he's been secretive because he's trying to plan a party (with her friend) for her, but the wife's nosy mother saw him out with the friend and assumed the worst, and she told her daughter, and 2+2=4....

I think I may have done the "bitchy sister" in Numbers Game, so I'll let that go, although this kind of sister would be a bit beyond what I'd done.

I really do hope someone's making a file or keeping a list, b/c these are all great little things to add into a story. I think the story will just be the two characters, and I'm considering flashbacks, so I'm not sure I need anyone else to add to the trouble. But I have to be careful -- this was inspired by a song and sometimes I'll pen myself in by trying to be too faithful to the lyrics. I don't think that will happen here, as the lyrics aren't actually that specific, but still.

For today -- trying to get a grip on R&B9, still, and then I don't know. Plenty of stuff to work on, it feels like, but with posting this and then the holidays coming up, it may be a while until the next thing. I always wait for things to settle down but then they never quite do.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Hmm... that felt rushed, so we'll see how it reads back when I get a chance. But either way I did write something today and my innocent victim was fondled by the mean ol' witch.

 

[RjThoughts]

No writing per se, just note taking and reading. Woke up not in the best health, and had to skip the first of many Holiday parties this afternoon: And it is HOLIDAY because there are Jewish and Orthodox Christians at the job.

 

[sr71plt]

Still hung over from yesterday. Didn't get home from D.C. until 6 pm, and then pounded out 5,000 words on a story plus a half on ideas that hit me while trying to get out of D.C. traffic.

 

[TxRad]

About 6k words today in three different stories. Maybe more later tonight.

 

[lance gt]

8500 words and 2 pages of notes is enough for this week. I'll do a read out and see how it all sounds and work out the flow of the last 5 ch's.