Wednesday, November 07, 2001
I am starting to have this weird obsession with wanting to know if anyone has ever read this blog. I have no idea how to add an email link (wyethia@mindspring.com if you are out there) or a counter and it is driving me nuts. I suppose I could try to go somewhere and find out, but with nano month and all, I doubt I will this month anyway. Computer illiteracy.
The writing is going well, all and all. I am falling slowly behind in word count. I missed Sunday and most of Tuesday and was already a few hundred short. Oh well. I'll either catch up or I won't! My characters did some weird stuff this morning. I'm still reeling a bit. Ueda, my married character, who has been written thus far in a sober, literary type style, suddenly was carried away by flying monkeys. A flying baboon, to be more precise. That was not in the plan. No idea how I'm going to get her back. Ryan, alcoholic slut girl, met an unexpected hitchhiker and is now falling into some sort of weird backwards Harlequin romance. Also, not in the plan. No idea where this thing is going.
More web posters are getting their novels up and keeping them updated. www.madebymark.com is still the best. His writing quality suddenly had a few blips on it for Nov. 5th's post--but I won't hold it against him ;) I found a link to another one today, http://www.selkie.net/writing/blogger.php--a woman named Lisa, that has some intriguing excerpts on her blogger.
I went through another book craze. Occasionally I just loose it and start buying book after book. I spend so much money doing this. I bought another Doris Lessing novel, "Love, Again", a book of poetry by Shannon Olds, The Wellspring, then I found a reference to an author named Italo Calvino in an email and had to go buy that through Barnes and Noble (they have free shipping right now [sorry Amazon]). I bought his book "A winter nights traveler"--it isn't a normal novel, it is actually 10 beginning chapters of novels that he manages to string together in a cohesive work. It is wonderful. But I couldn't just buy one book there, I ended up also getting Henry and June by Anais--because I was reading Incest and it was all out of order since I hadn't yet read Henry and June. then I went to the used bookstore and found a stack of good sci-fi novels. I am reading four books at once currently which, in combination with my nanonovel, is making me a bit nutty I think.
On a good note, I've actually been getting more work done at work. Joy! I'll become a productive citizen yet. ¶ 10:22 AM
The writing is going well, all and all. I am falling slowly behind in word count. I missed Sunday and most of Tuesday and was already a few hundred short. Oh well. I'll either catch up or I won't! My characters did some weird stuff this morning. I'm still reeling a bit. Ueda, my married character, who has been written thus far in a sober, literary type style, suddenly was carried away by flying monkeys. A flying baboon, to be more precise. That was not in the plan. No idea how I'm going to get her back. Ryan, alcoholic slut girl, met an unexpected hitchhiker and is now falling into some sort of weird backwards Harlequin romance. Also, not in the plan. No idea where this thing is going.
More web posters are getting their novels up and keeping them updated. www.madebymark.com is still the best. His writing quality suddenly had a few blips on it for Nov. 5th's post--but I won't hold it against him ;) I found a link to another one today, http://www.selkie.net/writing/blogger.php--a woman named Lisa, that has some intriguing excerpts on her blogger.
I went through another book craze. Occasionally I just loose it and start buying book after book. I spend so much money doing this. I bought another Doris Lessing novel, "Love, Again", a book of poetry by Shannon Olds, The Wellspring, then I found a reference to an author named Italo Calvino in an email and had to go buy that through Barnes and Noble (they have free shipping right now [sorry Amazon]). I bought his book "A winter nights traveler"--it isn't a normal novel, it is actually 10 beginning chapters of novels that he manages to string together in a cohesive work. It is wonderful. But I couldn't just buy one book there, I ended up also getting Henry and June by Anais--because I was reading Incest and it was all out of order since I hadn't yet read Henry and June. then I went to the used bookstore and found a stack of good sci-fi novels. I am reading four books at once currently which, in combination with my nanonovel, is making me a bit nutty I think.
On a good note, I've actually been getting more work done at work. Joy! I'll become a productive citizen yet. ¶ 10:22 AM
