I need to figure out some way to capture thoughts when I drive... on the way home just now, I had a really good vision of how my novel will/can open, and now I've forgotten it. It's there, and if I could just SILENCE the TV for a minute... where are the headphones? shouldn't I just go ahead and buy the noise-canceling headphones in my shopping cart on Amazon...
I'm also beta-testing some software and if I don't get it singing by the end of tomorrow night, I'm scrapping it and going with Word. :-P
Had a dream this morning, and I think I just now figured out what it means... connected to my brother's illness and a swirl of a lot of other stuff that is going on around me. I'm on to something really really big here (probably not the novel), but some kind of big life thing...
Ok, so I'm going to find the headphones and spend 45 minutes trying to get back to the car reverie. Or I could just go drive around for 45 minutes and talk to my voice mail... but that would be a waste of minutes and gas.
I don't do morning pages a la Cameron. But here's where I am today (on my day off):
I've got a couple of interesting details worked out, by way of making my book interesting, artistic rather than just padding word count. I'm not trying to be tricky anymore. That feels good.
I spoke the other day to a guy in a band (NOT the band in my book, no no) ;-) and he had some interesting things to say about the song the book is named after. I can't say that the song itself really plays into the story at all, other than it's one of the songs the band plays. And I realize the violation of privacy that drawing my friend AS a CHARACTER would be, so I am creating characters from whole cloth. It's more fun that way, anyway... instead of paint-by-numbers, it's abstract and creative.
I've noticed lately that most of my blog posts, emails and such ALL start with "I"... it's annoying the crap out of me. So, writing a novel will be good. Total change from the blog/email voice.
Another set of thoughts: serious procrastination. I have begun to feel good about the project, and therefore, the spillover is that I think "OH, it would be a perfect time to get out XYZ and start that!" Um, NO! So, I'm more in finish-it mode. It's colder here, and I'm changing the sheets on my son's bed today. Time to finish his quilt. I've got the quilting and binding to do, all of which can be done on the machine - and it will just look like it looks, ya know? this kid will be 40 by the time I hand-quilt this thing.
Microdermabrasion. Maybe not such a good thing to invest in during NaNo, but maybe tooth whitening?
I think next Sunday I will wrap all the xmas prezzies that I've accumulated through the months, and get them ready to post. Might as well. After NaNo will be almost too late...
Paying bills, filing, dishes, laundry, cooking, commuting... all these things will have to go on. Thanskgiving - need to get a plan, an invitation, something *enriching* for me and Wonder Boy because I know I'll be stressed and even cranky to spend a lot of time alone... we've decided NOT to go visit for T'giving, and I need to break that news to my dad. Argh.
I'm just a little uncomfortable in my skin right now about things, but NaNo is not the culprit. Maybe the catalyst, in a good sort of cleansing way. Which brings me back to microdermabrasion...