Wow! I was off and running yesterday! I skimmed the last few pages of RM and it wasn't too bad. Interpretation: not total dreck. And I started writing--and this WAS total dreck, but I can fix dreck.
I had finished roughly 2000 words (6 pages) when I got a call from the school nurse. The kiddo threw up at lunch and they have to send her home. Well, crap.
After I picked her up and grilled her about it, it turns out she may have thrown up, but she really wasn't sick. My child is a puker. She always has been. When she was a wee one, I knew she would never choke on anything--she'd puke it up. Anyhoo, they had science today and were dissecting owl 'pellets'. Owls eat their prey whole and regurge the lefties (fur and bones) after all the yummy stuff is digested. After science, the child went to lunch and had a chicken sandwich, she bit into something crunchy . . . and you guessed it, puked up her lunch. Ah, the thrill of being a mother!
She came home and read. I wrote.
Margaret (goal 15,000 words): Mon.--3171 words!
Jody: wrote
Karin: I know she wrote, but this Grandma-to-be is thinking about the pending birth of her Grandbaby!
I'm ready to go again! It's nice to be progressing on something again.
Write on!
OMG! You're like a machine! You go!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your daughter is okay.
Okay, I can only allot about 2 hours per day this week to writing - and probably nothing over the weekend. It's my BIG birthday weekend, and I will be out most of every night (DEAD UNTIL DARK is my mantra) and will only be getting up during the day to give myself enough time to ride and then get ready for the next night out.....after three nights of this I expect I will be toast.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Margie, thanks for teaching me a new word: Dreck. I hadn't heard it before. But it pretty much is exactly what it sounds like, isn't it?
Tonight I have met my 2-hour goal. But not all of it was writing - some of the time was doing the illustration for the chapter heading. Does that count? Isn't a picture is worth 1,000 words....?