Actual butt-kicking machine courtesy Dixie Dining and Heavy's BBQ in Crawfordville, GA.
Oh, I'm sneaking this one right under the daily calendar cutoff, but the lateness of the post is symptomatic of my current problems. I've been sick the last couple of weeks or so, though it sure seems like longer, and the fugue's killed my productivity, which was already a little anemic.
My butt's the one that needs kickin', because I've just got to finish the first draft of this MS in process. There are opportunities coming up in April if I have something ready to show, and I need at least to have my agent buy in on the basics and the beginning, and have the total draft in enough shape that I can answer questions about how it ends. Therefore, I'm in need of a custom and personal NaNo to finish editing the rough stuff and fleshing out what doesn't exist yet. So, I'm pledging to myself-- but in public so I feel stuck-- that I'm going to write 1000 words/day and do at least an hour of editing everyday through the end of March. Might not seem like much, but it would be enough.
Any looming deadlines or dropped resolutions nagging at you? Miserable company available.
Monday, February 25, 2008
KickButt Monday
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Clare2e, 1000 words a day plus an hour of editing is good and I know you'll do it.
No deadline here, but my husband is away so I've got the house to myself and a lovely new bottle of Irish Whiskey and I don't feel much like doing any writing.
I've found a Wee Sip shortens the track between "I can't write that" and "Oh, that's brilliant!"
It may not be, but it gets it written.
Tx, Leah, for the encouragement.
That's time-tested advice for drowning the dreaded writer's block, Hemingway-style. As a kilted distillery master once said to me, "If you're lucky enough to find yourself in possession of a bottle like this," (he was holding up a prize Scotch), "drink it like a true Scot... Alone!"
Oh, Clare, if you're not feeling well, at least substitute some soft slippers for the boots on that contraption!
Feel better! I'll be rooting for your recovery and your finishing the wip.
Clare,
You could never be miserable company!
As everyone knows I have been having writing, editing, and just plain old surviving problems since I got to Florida. Well, I am coming home soon and I am getting psyched. (Or, at least, I realize I will have run out of excuses.)
In the month of March, I will: revise CS, write AH and send the revised copy of DD to you. AND, I will encourage you to get that thousand words a day and hour of revision done each day!
What are friends for? We help and encourage each other!
GO TEAM!
Terrie
The sunny warmth here makes me feel like I'm taking the cure in Palm Springs, for sure!
Elaine-
I love your idea of a silk-slippered buttkicker, so subversive and decadent. Iron fist in the velvet glove, indeed.
Terrie-
Looking forward to having you back. Consider that initial-rich pledge noted in your permanent record.
Count me in. I have to finish the silly draft so I can write a synopsis for the Daphne contest. Given I don't outline, I have a lot of writing to do!
You're counted, Laura!
Photo story:
Henry Ford was a little confused when his British investors insisted upon boots.
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