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Remember the novel I wrote in 18 days last November, as part of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)? Remember how all I could blog about all month was how crappy my novel was? The thing about writing a novel that fast is that there’s no time for editing or even reading what you’ve already written. You [...] GC and I signed up for a short story writing course called Snapping the Sheet. It’s taught by Joanne Proulx, who wrote a novel called Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, which is about a 17-year-old stoner who becomes known as The Prophet of Death. The course consists of five weekly two-hour classes. The emphasis is [...] On Wednesday afternoon, after 18 days of frenetic writing, I finished my Nanowrimo novel! I typed my 50,000th word, completed the sentence, wrote THE END and exhaled deeply. Woohoo. I hit the word count button, and it said my novel was 50,023 words long. I don’t know what I expected…some sort of hoopla, I guess. [...] My Nanowrimo novel continues to limp along. It’s up to 38,547 words now, or 101 paperback pages. If I were to choose one word to describe it, it would be “flaccid.” Lacking vigor or energy. Weak. Soft. When you know your book is irredeemably bad, it’s hard to keep putting in the time and energy [...]
A sunbeam for Duncan My house is full of sunshine today! Even the rooms that don’t usually get sunshine are sunny. Duncan’s in his bliss – sunbeams everywhere. Nothing he likes more than a snooze in a ‘beam. The novel continues to surprise me. Duncan has found a spot for himself in it, and he [...] Last night GC and I attended the National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) kick-off event, which was at the Yang Sheng restaurant at the corner of Somerset and Bronson. My mother always said if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all, so I’m not going to say anything at all about the [...] Still Life with Duncan My friend Fiona dropped by for a visit last night. “What do you need?” she asked before she came over, “What can I bring?” “I don’t need anything,” I replied, and then added as a crafty afterthought, “Except maybe a Mars Bar.” (You can get away with this sort of thing when you’re recovering [...] I think I’m just going to ramble about stuff today. I’ve got a bit of a jumble going on in my head, and it’s demanding a ramble. First of all, for those of you who have been intrigued by the reviews of the description-defying Astronaut Love Triangle, but haven’t yet had the rare opportunity to [...] I’m only allowed 90 minutes of sitting per day, and the doctor suggested I used these minutes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ha! Leisurely breakfast be damned! I’m going to blog for 27 minutes and then wolf down some Raisin Bran. I’ve said before that the blog knows everything. If I need to know how to [...] My back was feeling quite a bit better today so I took a half-price bus to work. (What’s up with the bus fares anyway? Some days it’s free, some days it’s half price, some days City Council votes to vote again tomorrow on whether or not to change their minds again. It’s confusing.) The highlight of [...] |
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