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Mar
26
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-26
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- @xtinalloyd Things are going pretty good. My hands are acting up, though. Wrist braces and ice packs are my jewelry these days. #
- @cleshastaten You really don’t want to know what I had for lunch.
# - @cleshastaten A cheeseburger, fries, and the last half cup or so of cheesecake filling, straight from the tub. I am so bad…. #
- @cleshastaten Yeah. I figure why make a bowl dirty. #
- @cleshastaten Good thing is I didn’t cover it with the over whipped cream and hot fudge sauce left over from my son’s birthday party. #
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Mar
26
Motivation
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motivation
noun
1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; “we did not understand his motivation”; “he acted with the best of motives”
No matter who or what you are, everyone is guided by their motivations. Whether it is “because I love/hate him” or “because I can”, there’s always a reason we do something. For example, the reason I’m writing this blog post is:
procrastination
1548, from L. procrastinationem “a putting off,” noun of action from procrastinare “put off till tomorrow,” from pro- “forward” + crastinus “belonging to tomorrow,” from cras “tomorrow,” of unknown origin. Procrastinate is recorded from 1588.
I’m stuck yet again with TMA. This time it’s a bathtub scene. A bathtub scene, can you believe it? A naked man, a naked woman, both are seriously attracted to each other, but no sex happens.
Hm.
Maybe that’s the problem. No sex. Oh, the irony. There was a point where I had problems writing scenes with sexual/sensual content. How my friends will laugh now when they see it’s the lack of sex that’s stumping me.
Mar
25
100 Book Challenge: #12 – Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
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I enjoyed this book. The way Hobb described things rambled on quite a bit in places, but I still got vivid images in my imagination.
Mar
24
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-24
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- @chartjes Happy Birthday, Wookie! #
- I just entered to win an Acer netbook – follow @MichelleM and retweet to enter too! http://is.gd/oD1E #
- My cat, who generally doesn’t like to snuggle, appears to be upset he can’t get under the blanket with me. #
- Correction. Me covered in blanket = thou shalt pick up the cat up and scritch him until he decides he’s had enough. #
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Mar
24
Another Day, Another Chapter
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I finally broke through the spot I was having problems with. Or rather, I decided just to write something and move on to the next chapter. The Word-O-Meter now shows 44k – actual total is 44,054. I’ve started on Chapter 19. In the original NaNoWriMo draft, it was chapter 16. Shows how much I’ve added and moved things around.
It’s kind of funny. It took me 30 chapters to get to 50k words. A combination of actual writing and point-form outlines and a couple paragraphs here and there to get that word count. And I have to admit, most of those words sucked in some way. Less telling and more showing, talking heads, and really, a lot of words written just to get the word count. I’ve done more work on the rewrite than in the initial dash for words.
If I ever do NaNoWriMo again, and that’s a big if, I’m not going to do it without a complete plan or outline, unless I’m just doing it for the sake of doing it. 50,000 words is a huge investment, and not something I’m willing to just slap together without any hope of using it in the future, at least not without a huge investment of editing time.
Anyway, I’ve started on Chapter 19. Maybe I will get two more chapters done in the next seven days. Stranger things have happened.