Just a short blog today. I'm morbidly ill. I think it is food poisoning. I woke up in the middle of the night with horrible symptoms. campylobacter symptoms Not certain it is campylobacter but it's pretty hideous. All I've done all day is drunk hot gingerale, spent way too much time in the smallest room and slept. Oh and amazingly written 850 words! I'm hoping it's really only a 24 hour bug and I'll be fine tomorrow. Time will tell!
Today's beautiful word
Plethora A superabundance; an excess
Today's word count: 850 words
Total word count: 36862 words
Monday, November 16, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The muse is on a roll!
Today was one of those days when it would have been better to stay in bed! Rice was spilled....twice! Coffee dribbled, milk dripped, sundried tomatoes made a bid for escape, people left messages for other people on my work phone without paying any attention to the message and there was no blue cheese!
So what could make it better? How about reeling off 6873 words with no effort! Rosie was destined to have a bad day because we share everything. Naturally hers had to be far worse than mine! Although it did end with a phone call from her Tiger so she ended it feeling fairly happy.
I've gone back in time with the book. Not as in TTW but rather I've gone back to earlier chapters when life was full of promise and there were sunbeams and unicorns everywhere in Rosie's world. It is quite nice writing about happy people where everything is going well. My next target may be Megan. I may just sort out the tangled mess that is her love life....or not. James is seeing someone....is she going to steal his heart before Rosie wakes up and realises that he is her heart and soul. It is really starting to look like Rosie will be the one who ends up alone....living with 13 cats and plaiting mats from her own hair. Lydia aka lizard woman is about to burst onto the scene, trying to claim Nick as her own....which would have been fine if he knew he was but he is blissfully unaware that her catty behaviour is the result of unrequited love. It does not bode well for Rosie....just how far will Lydia be prepared to go to warn Rosie off? You'll be surprised!
Today's beautiful word
Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
Today's word count: 6873 words
Total word count: 36012 words
So what could make it better? How about reeling off 6873 words with no effort! Rosie was destined to have a bad day because we share everything. Naturally hers had to be far worse than mine! Although it did end with a phone call from her Tiger so she ended it feeling fairly happy.
I've gone back in time with the book. Not as in TTW but rather I've gone back to earlier chapters when life was full of promise and there were sunbeams and unicorns everywhere in Rosie's world. It is quite nice writing about happy people where everything is going well. My next target may be Megan. I may just sort out the tangled mess that is her love life....or not. James is seeing someone....is she going to steal his heart before Rosie wakes up and realises that he is her heart and soul. It is really starting to look like Rosie will be the one who ends up alone....living with 13 cats and plaiting mats from her own hair. Lydia aka lizard woman is about to burst onto the scene, trying to claim Nick as her own....which would have been fine if he knew he was but he is blissfully unaware that her catty behaviour is the result of unrequited love. It does not bode well for Rosie....just how far will Lydia be prepared to go to warn Rosie off? You'll be surprised!
Today's beautiful word
Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
Today's word count: 6873 words
Total word count: 36012 words
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Enforced writing!
I have been putting all my time into the physical and none into the intellectual! My days have been filled with work and exercise and I have been too exhausted to have an original thought. I did manage to read Audrey Niffenegger's second book - excellent but nowhere near as good as The Time Traveller's Wife. I found the ending disappointing and there was little suspense....you could guess what was going to happen before it did. Still lovely words but really it would have been impossible to ever compete with TTTW - it is the most beautiful work.
You may remember I decided to embrace my Queen Bitchiness and read the riot act to someone, well-deserved but still an insult. We had a Mexican stand-off with neither prepared to back down- really nothing had changed apart from I didn't communicate...but he just continued as before. I at least admitted I was pissed whereas St Pancreas maintained he was not. Mayhap he is a Saint! If I was of religious bent then I should start to worry about an eternity in purgatory. Thank goodness I am not! Well, we are working on a truce. So we will see if an armistice occurs on Sunday. We've agreed to meet but now we await a decision on location and time....from the person I abused for never replying to texts.....hmm. I laugh! Ha ha ha! Oh well maybe I can introduce this into my novel. My new ethos is "Don't piss me off or you'll end up in my novel!"
On the subject of religious bent....Telecom's new ad really pisses me off! As a small child I regularly attended church with my Grandparents and one song was drilled into my head (well two...I tend to sing Rock of Ages under times of stress!) ...this little light of mine. It stuck in my head and I would frequently have it floating around in my head. Only years of Green Day and Lily Allen had permanently removed it.....and now Telecom has put it back into my cerebral cortex!
Anyway Queen bitch and religious rantings aside, I decided, based on the advice of my Guru Gordon Wells, to at least try to write a little today and whoopee....1095 words! Rosie had a monologue in the mirror while straightening her hair. She worked out where her life was going, what she'd do and how she'd cope when she had lapses in fighting her addiction to the Tiger. She ended up with gorgeous hair and a much stronger frame of mind. Go Rosie! And she decided to wear red lipstick always!
Today's beautiful word
Elixir A good potion.
Today's word count: 1095 words
Total word count: 29139 words
You may remember I decided to embrace my Queen Bitchiness and read the riot act to someone, well-deserved but still an insult. We had a Mexican stand-off with neither prepared to back down- really nothing had changed apart from I didn't communicate...but he just continued as before. I at least admitted I was pissed whereas St Pancreas maintained he was not. Mayhap he is a Saint! If I was of religious bent then I should start to worry about an eternity in purgatory. Thank goodness I am not! Well, we are working on a truce. So we will see if an armistice occurs on Sunday. We've agreed to meet but now we await a decision on location and time....from the person I abused for never replying to texts.....hmm. I laugh! Ha ha ha! Oh well maybe I can introduce this into my novel. My new ethos is "Don't piss me off or you'll end up in my novel!"
On the subject of religious bent....Telecom's new ad really pisses me off! As a small child I regularly attended church with my Grandparents and one song was drilled into my head (well two...I tend to sing Rock of Ages under times of stress!) ...this little light of mine. It stuck in my head and I would frequently have it floating around in my head. Only years of Green Day and Lily Allen had permanently removed it.....and now Telecom has put it back into my cerebral cortex!
Anyway Queen bitch and religious rantings aside, I decided, based on the advice of my Guru Gordon Wells, to at least try to write a little today and whoopee....1095 words! Rosie had a monologue in the mirror while straightening her hair. She worked out where her life was going, what she'd do and how she'd cope when she had lapses in fighting her addiction to the Tiger. She ended up with gorgeous hair and a much stronger frame of mind. Go Rosie! And she decided to wear red lipstick always!
Today's beautiful word
Elixir A good potion.
Today's word count: 1095 words
Total word count: 29139 words
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