Author: The Jody

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I’m going to bed. 8118 words! Holy cow, I’m looking at the time for the last entry. That’s a lot of work in only a half hour. Of course it’s all crap, but the mantra of this project is “quantity, not quality.” I can do that.

Wow! I just checked and I have 7468 words now! I am rocking and rolling! What helped was a change of scenery. I put the laptop on a small table, threw a fake log in the fireplace and let ‘er rip. I got into a whole Lousia May Alcott groove except she wrote in the attic in longhand. Well, there’s always the next novel for that, except I think I hear something scurrying up there last night, and we live in a cape so at the highest point there’s probably only 3 feet of clearance up there.

I’m going to write for another 10-15 minutes and go up to bed and do some reading. I’ve been poking through my “library” looking for good books written in the 1st person for stylistic hints. I had just finished a good one that’s at work, so I’ll take that home tomorrow.

6210. Hey, maybe I can do this today.

[Richard Pryor voice] I’m bad, I’m bad…

Hey, the Emmy’s are on tonight. I’m going to have to figure out if I care. Barbra Streisand is supposed to perform. Seems odd to me. Oh well, I’d like to watch to make sure the Sopranos win a bucket of awards.

5737 words. I can’t take a nap, can I? Darn it, I want to take a nap. And I want to go see Monsters Inc with my family this evening. But when would I get another 2000 words written?

I hate deadlines.