Day 11, NaNoWriMo

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

You’re wondering – why can’t she write here rather than off on that thing she’s writing for NaNoWriMo? Well apparently my brain is pulled in the direction of plot and stuff right now and it’s thinking that word count better feed the word count validator that cranks out the statistical bar graph of progress.

Tonight’s the night that everything turned green again so I’m feeling good about it.

It’s getting colder, as you might expect for mid-November. This was my mailbox the other morning. Take a close look.

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Duty and purpose – for the quote box

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. — Mary Lyon

Via The Writers Almanac, re Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

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Day 7 aka Saturday

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

After not being able to settle down at home and write anything, I got ready to go and took a nice leisurely drive south through Ghent and places south to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard College. Beautiful views of the Catskills on the other side of the Hudson River and wild clouds, although you’d have to say it was really pretty warm, 55F in November has to count as warm.

Anyway, I found the place I need to be tonight. My plan was to find a place to eat but I wasn’t particularly hungry. Turns out there was a strong campus wifi signal so I got out my laptop and started to write.

The story seems like it’s going to take a dark turn but I’ll have to wait a bit to see what happens next. Maybe things will percolate while I listen to Neil Gaiman and Armistead Maupin?

All I know is I made goal for today, even without writing 1667 words, so if I do continue later, it’s all good.

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The Good Work – aka The Work ie., Do The Work

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

This one was worth doing the re-wind for, via NYTimes:

I really love working…Most people they want hit records because that’s how they make their money but you know what I realized is that I don’t care about hit records as long as the hit records come as a by-product of doing the good work. I’m pretty sure that when I’m dead and gone people will still think that their teachers wrote ‘We Are Family’. — Nile Rodgers

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Day 6

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

It was a long day. Two big writing pushes. I didn’t figure out where the Main Characters paternal grandparents live exactly (I have an idea) but I did figure out names for them and the surprise Auntie and her husband. I love choosing names. In fact I used NAME in angle brackets today because I knew what a time sink that can be for me, despite how much I love and enjoy it. I used names as an incentive for getting to goal.

I always count it as good when things get a bit weepy. Not soupy, just a wave of emotion. A little break through, a little emotion, all good.

None of this was exciting or mysterious. Well that’s not true. Part of it was exciting and mysterious. Just not the part leading up to the end and the weepiness. Good thing there’s a cute kitten — what??? There was an exciting and mysterious to be continued part several parts before that.

I’m just punchy is all. And I think I’ll stop for the night and do something else for awhile.

PS A few minutes after posting my word count I got an email from NaNoWriMo with a bunch of high fives and a fun challenge and a “keep going!” How cool is that?

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