Day 20.... crunch time
Okay, I'm lagging behind, but still in the ballpark at just over 32,000 words. I'm not going to bother trying to figure out some algebra equation that tells me I need to do x number of words over y number of days because that's NOT how it works. Some days I feel like I have to squeeze just 400 words out of my soul. Other days, the writing fairies are with me and 6 or 7 or 8 thousand words will spill out of me like Lay's plain natural potato chips out of a value-size bag. And I don't care if that analogy works or not. This is nanowrimo month and ANYTHING goes.
I've already figured out that my story idea really isn't rich enough to be a novel or even a novella. But distilled down to its bare molecules, I think it would make a pretty entertaining short story. Or birthday card. Or at least an episode of House (picture this: a 22 year old woman looks like she's dying from heavy metal toxicity. The young doctors search her house and discover she's been drinking the juice collected from the miniature fruits of her beloved bonsai lemon tree that used to belong to her much older and now dead mobster husband. Except House figures out there's a diamond and sapphire and platinum necklace (stolen from a museum) that the old mobster hid in the trunk of the bonsai tree 70 years ago, and which has been leaking a soup of toxic metals into the tiny lemons and into the woman's blood stream. After being saved by the wily/crusty doctor, the woman recalls that her husband's last dying words were strangely: *no eat da froot. Case solved.)
Hey, that sounds pretty good to me. I'm sending that off to the show producers right now. Well, right after I get at least 1200 nanowrimo words in. Unless of course, my character writes a screenplay!!!! Then I can include the whole thing in my novel. Remember....ANYTHING goes.
P.S. I am Italian...so no hatemail about stereotypes, okay?
Things I've learned today....
-procrastination can be used as a creativity tool
-so can Lay's plain potato chips
-with espresso....yessssss!
I've already figured out that my story idea really isn't rich enough to be a novel or even a novella. But distilled down to its bare molecules, I think it would make a pretty entertaining short story. Or birthday card. Or at least an episode of House (picture this: a 22 year old woman looks like she's dying from heavy metal toxicity. The young doctors search her house and discover she's been drinking the juice collected from the miniature fruits of her beloved bonsai lemon tree that used to belong to her much older and now dead mobster husband. Except House figures out there's a diamond and sapphire and platinum necklace (stolen from a museum) that the old mobster hid in the trunk of the bonsai tree 70 years ago, and which has been leaking a soup of toxic metals into the tiny lemons and into the woman's blood stream. After being saved by the wily/crusty doctor, the woman recalls that her husband's last dying words were strangely: *no eat da froot. Case solved.)
Hey, that sounds pretty good to me. I'm sending that off to the show producers right now. Well, right after I get at least 1200 nanowrimo words in. Unless of course, my character writes a screenplay!!!! Then I can include the whole thing in my novel. Remember....ANYTHING goes.
P.S. I am Italian...so no hatemail about stereotypes, okay?
Things I've learned today....
-procrastination can be used as a creativity tool
-so can Lay's plain potato chips
-with espresso....yessssss!
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