Though not in the sand.<\/p>\n
THE DAY<\/p>\n
Wow, it’s been DAYS since I last wrote here. \u00a0What, about six days? \u00a0That feels like forever. \u00a0I guess I’ve just been focusing on keeping my head down and working. \u00a0There were a couple days when I didn’t have much time for work–Saturday, I think, because we were invited over to a friend’s place and I futzed for hours that morning, trying to get something going–and one where I didn’t feel all that well (s\/p a medical thing). \u00a0Otherwise, I’ve pretty much just been writing every day and not really paying attention to anything else. \u00a0Fretting over the yard or a privacy fence or whatever . . . it’s just a waste of energy. Nothing will be done any faster if I worry about it, and no one will respond more quickly (if at all) if I’m on the phone more often.<\/p>\n
Or maybe I’ve reached critical mass where I just don’t care all that much about extraneous garbage. \u00a0Right now, I have to write. \u00a0I have to get a book out. \u00a0Screw everything else.<\/p>\n
To that end, I’ve hammering and hammering and hammering on niggling plot points. \u00a0The husband is trying to be helpful, but when he asks if I’m working from outline, I evade or just say no. \u00a0I had an outline; it didn’t work; I don’t have to the patience to try one again, not now. \u00a0Just write and then loop back and write again and loop back . . . you know, that whole writing into the dark thing. \u00a0I still don’t think it’s more efficient, especially when I overwrite to explain something to myself and then cut it all out the next day or just retain snippets. \u00a0But whatever. \u00a0It’s what I’m doing now.<\/p>\n
WRITING OUT LOUD
\nStay\u00a0Dead\u00a0(started 5\/05; Days 1-4, false start)<\/p>\n
Day 1: 1000 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 23-26: 9450
\nDay 2: 1200 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 27: (novella) 2000
\nDay 3: 1800 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 28: 2500
\nDay 4: 1350 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 29-32: 8850
\nDay 5: 1000 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 33: 3400
\nDay 6: 2000 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0LONDON HIATUS (13 days)
\nDay 7-10: ~4500 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 34: 3000
\nDay 11-12: ~5000 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 35-39: 9,800
\nDay 13: 1600
\nDay 14: 2300
\nDay 15-17: 4450
\nDay 18-19: 4500
\nDay 20-22: 5220<\/p>\n
Blog Post: 700 Anyway, the\u00a0Who\u00a0<\/em>story…I don’t know if I much care about that. \u00a0I’m willing to follow this Doctor for now, but whether that will translate into an attachment to other Doctors or different Companions . . . who knows?<\/p>\n Also finished out\u00a0Humans\u00a0<\/em>(I might have posted on that already) and just found out that\u00a0The Last Ship<\/em>, one of my summer faves, is back on. \u00a0Got to catch up in between\u00a0Whos<\/em>. Though not in the sand. THE DAY Wow, it’s been DAYS since I last wrote here. \u00a0What, about six days? \u00a0That feels like forever. \u00a0I guess I’ve just been focusing on keeping my head down and working. \u00a0There were a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhat I’m Watching:
\nBack to\u00a0Dr. Who<\/em>. Finished Season 5, started Season 6. \u00a0It’s starting to grow on me like a fungus. \u00a0The show has its immensely lame and silly moments, but I do like Matt Smith as the Doctor, so I’m willing to stick with it for him. \u00a0(He’s also going to be in an upcoming movie,\u00a0Patient Zero<\/em>, that I’ll certainly see.) \u00a0I had this discussion today with a FB friend about the series in general. \u00a0I’m not such a fan of the whole Doctor changing every few years bit. \u00a0I tend to get attached to people more than the actual overarching story. \u00a0(Which is why DS9\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Enterprise\u00a0<\/em>never did anything for me; I didn’t care that they were\u00a0Star Trek. \u00a0<\/em>What I cared about were the characters. \u00a0If I could find one to like or an interaction I liked, I’d stick with it. \u00a0I almost ditched\u00a0TNG<\/em> and pretty much\u00a0had\u00a0<\/em>stopped watching it until I just happened to flip to it one evening when they just\u00a0happened\u00a0<\/em>to do Part I of\u00a0The Best of Both Worlds<\/em>. \u00a0Then, all of a sudden, I had people I cared about and I watched until it got silly and lame again, somewhere around Season 6. \u00a0That’s when it seemed to turn into\u00a0Peyton Place. \u00a0<\/em>Personally, I didn’t get the whole Worf-Troi thing, and I never much cared for\u00a0her\u00a0<\/em>as a character. \u00a0So that drama did nothing for me.)<\/p>\n
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\nWhat I’m Reading:
\nI\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>reading\u00a0The Shining Girls<\/em>, and I guess I still am but got sidetracked on a pretty interesting book about leadership and mental illness (A First-Rate Madness<\/em>). \u00a0One nice thing about a vacation: you do get in more reading. \u00a0Which I really ought to do more of as a regular habit. \u00a0It’s how writers get ideas.
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\nWhat I’m Listening to:
\nI have been bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"