General revving of engines
One day I’ll work out how to stick that in the side-bar. And, uh, make it a bit bigger.
Thank you for the kind wishes. I got home from work feeling like a little kid with big homework, and moped about the kitchen eating salted hazelnuts and whining about absolutely every other tiny little thing going on in my life right now, working up a good old Martyred Expression, especially as my husband wasn’t offering to do the cooking so I could get on and write, when I realised that the only reason he hadn’t offered was because he was actually doing it. At which point I felt like an eejit and sloped sheepishly over to the computer.
I am aiming for 2000 words a day. Today’s count so far, 500. I think I really ought to stop yammering on at you guys and go and rescue my hero from the ankle-deep mud currently ruining his best loafers. [You could buy him some wellies - Ed (still, by the way, sulking, because I was so not consulted about this)].
November 1st, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Good luck! Hope that oceans of prose pour from fingers to keyboard!
November 1st, 2006 at 8:54 pm
I got the NoBloPoMoLoGoToGo in my sidebar by putting the appropriate html, and nowt else, into a text widget, and putting the text widget there.
Still more luck.
AB
November 1st, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Done it! Done it! 2118 words! I rock! [Oh hush - Ed]
This blog is alas devoid of text widgets.
It has lovely style sheets and things which I daren’t touch incase the entire blog is eaten by the Soup Dragon.
Must pester husband more strenuously. He understands HTML. I understand how to use ‘effect’ and ‘affect’. Perfect partnership.
November 2nd, 2006 at 2:41 am
First, can you please send your husband out to Australia so that he can cook the dinner for me and I can write? Or, send him here so he can demonstrate to my husband that if no dinner is ready, the correct response is to get on and make it. Not to put on an Oscar-winning performance of “Hunger”, tantrum for half and hour, scrabble desperately for take-out menus, then burst into tears because: “You threw out the menus!!” I will not describe what I found in the fridge after I came back from 5 weeks in UK.
Great work, by the way. This inspires me to get off the internet and start redrafting!
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:14 am
Nanny nanny boo boo Helen. I have one of those useful cooking helpful husbands. Idon’t knowthat this is something that can be taught. I think they are born that way. Or something
Congratulations, Reed, on your wordage. good luck.
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Congratulations on 2,000 coherent words. As for cooking husbands, oftimes they are created by necessity. I - err - THEY often have to choose between starvation and cooking. (married not to a writer, but a painter.)
November 2nd, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Go Reed!