zomg!

2 days, 4 hours.

i'm not ready.

thats a lie. i have a new 3 subject notebook, i have a box of my favorite bics, i have 2 pages of notes, and i have the whole first section worked out.

but its nanowrimo and im never actually ready.

Accomplishing stuff

I've been getting writing related things done, and that makes me happy. Whenever the baby is asleep next to me on the couch and i have a free moment i open up the prequel rewrite and add a little to it.

my brother had a dream and told me all about it and it will be the premise of my Nanowrimo 2011 story. he called it a rip off of the movie Limitless with <3Bradley Cooper <3 which i've never seen and decided to not see it until after i've finished my story. There is a similarity and i want to keep my nano story free of any limitless plots.

And this whole week i've had story bits and pieces swirling around in my head at work. i'm gonna take one binder or another with me today and see what i can do about working on something.

I've been reading one of my favorite trilogies and that always gives me a bit of inspiration.

The Man In Black Fled Across the Desert and Other Opening Lines.

~The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
~Call me Ishmael.
~Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
~You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
~Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
~All this happened, more or less.

once again i must begin a post with the words 'it's been a long time'

And it has. but november is coming soon and i feel like i need to do a little practicing. And this isn't even me forcing myself because i actually want to write. Just a few weeks ago, after a mighty puking epsiode on my couch the husband said to me "have some wine, i'll take the kid"

so i had some wine and i sat down with The Third Bed and cleaned it up. I remember once before i went through that story and pulled out as many words as i could, and it seems i didn't do a well enough job because that's what i did this time again. I don't know what it is exactly that i did to it, but it came almost under a different light. There's something better about it now. it inspired me to keep going (and to drink more wine... or maybe that's old christine's doing...)

When i was still looking forward to my maternity leave, rather than back at it, i knew that i probably wouldn't have a whole lot of time for writing, or crafting. In the beginning that was true, but as i got better practiced i found that once in a while i DID have time for myself. to do my things. I've wanted to write this post a million times and it's funny that i'm writing it now that i've gone back to work (and kept my second job) and have so much less time than i did before.

But in just moments i will probably open up a new document and get a start on my rewrite of the Prequel. Yes. I'm rewriting it. Why? Because just like the Third Bed i see it under a different light and i just can't get it from what i already have. I know i can salvage much of it, but i just feel that i need a clean slate. I have my first words. I had so much trouble during the editing process trying to figure out what i wanted it to start with that having that first line just seems to open up the whole story.

And it's laid out for me under this new light, which isn't so bright. Not to say the story has become a dark one, but it most certainly has become something else...

Some Stuff Done

Yesterday I sat down with my short story editing binder and the newest printout of the 3rd bed with every intention of editing it. I did a little work on it, mostly with my highlighter and arrows, moving stuff around.

And instead of continuing on with 3rd bed, I flipped through to the story called Elsinore Compound which is one of the apocalypse stories and edited that instead. Which was cool since i tried to before and just couldnt get very far into it. If i hadn't run out of ambition i probably would have also done the story about the Priscillas.

but i did something, and that's awesome.

Monday!!

today we're going to office max to get a new ink cartridge for the printer!! I am excited for this because i really want to print Third Bed and get to work on it but the printer is EMPTY! like printing the rebate thing for office max came out all light gray and barely readable...

I've been thinking about it and i'm really excited to work on it a little bit. i even have a page of notes and a post it filled with things i want to do with it. It mostly concerns with the begining in the lounge, probably because that is the place where everyone on Scribeophile told me it was pointless.

only they're dialog readers and they didn't realize the lounge is important because it is part of the construction of the story. if you take it out the whole mirror image effect to the first and second parts of the story totally dies.

but, i can make this part more interesting. I have all sorts of tips for myself.