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Stymied at All Turns.
Stymied by Creativity.
So my goal with Nano this year is not to write 50,000 words, but just to write more than I did in 2003. You may remember me telling you I whipped up 3000 or something in that vicinity. Well either my subconscious is smoking crack behind my back or I'm just plain mental (I think we know the answer to that one! Drugs? In this day and age?), but when I unearthed the file yesterday, there's 11,019 words in it! Holy crackers. Did I write all that during Nano? Did I keep writing afterward? I have no idea, but beating 11,000 is a much more difficult goal and I don't know that I have time for that kind of productivity!
Stymied by Small Print.
I had the worst time with the Red Eye Crossword yesterday. One whole corner that just wasn't making any sense because what the hell is Swiss Rescue Bread of many letters? Pumpernickel's too long, Rye is too short, neither of those is Swiss I don't think, but my mind just kept thinking "you're going to rescue someone. you hand them bread. what would it be?" I even (eventually) had the first two letters: ST. i'm thinking "stroganoff? that's not bread. strumperpimpel? that's made up. st......st...." And that's when I realized the clue was actually Swiss Rescue Breed. St. Bernard, you fucking idiot, I said to myself.
Stymied by TV Addiction.
So I got home at 11:45 last night and only that early because we left the concert early. I had to get up as close to 4 a.m. as possible this morning. So best case scenario we're looking at a 4 hour sleep window. Hellllooooooo do you honestly think I could go to bed without watching Grey's Anatomy? Are you smoking crack too?
Posted by Duff at November 03, 2006
More power to you on the writing thing. That does not tempt me at all.
Posted by: claudia at November 3, 2006 01:29 PM
ok it's official -- with regards to "stymied by small print" -- i'm laughing AT you and not with you.
*snort*
Posted by: maryse at November 3, 2006 01:33 PM
Hey Ms Carolyn, do me a favour, would you? Could you take say half an hour this weekend to randomly ramble in a word document about what you want to write about this NaNo-go-round? Do at least 500 words of crap, whether you have the time or not, just do them somewhere somehow? Then you will have STARTED! The start's the hardest part. Yes, I'm the sesame street lady, and I think I'm terrible too, but I'm also the lady who keeps typing crap until the clock stops.
Posted by: marrije at November 3, 2006 03:44 PM
but it was such a good episode of GA, so it was worth it not to wait, right?
Posted by: melanie at November 5, 2006 06:07 PM