everybody knows you're cranky
I woke up in a cranky mood today. No reason except for a bad night's sleep, which was probably brought on by those Elvis sandwiches I ate last night.
I spent a good portion of the day whipping encouraging my children while they did their chores. Once the house was clean and the kids were outside with friends, I decided to bury myself in the preparations for my novel instead of biting the heads off of small kittens and terrified husbands.
The novel writing itself starts in six days. I am going to do this. Not only am I going to finish the novel, but it's going to be good. I am putting everything I have into this; there will be the ghosts of 10,000 unfinished stories watching over me as well as the spirits of a million different ideas and the legacy of my procrastination, fear and laziness.
Everybody Knows You're Crying may not be the next Great American Novel, but it will be a novel and it will be mine.
You can check my progress over at the blog I set up just for this purpose. Today, I talk about the main character. Some of you just may recognize her.
Comments
I'd join in the festivities, but other than the outline I wrote for the amazingly short story Ultimuttum (Man's Best Friend, Man's Worst Enemy), I have absolutely no novel-worthy story ideas.
Posted by: Laurence Simon | October 26, 2003 04:22 PM
Wowie, wow. Good luck with the writing! It's tough to write fiction, for me, anyway. Kudos! :)
Posted by: Aaron | October 26, 2003 04:45 PM
Wow, what a great title. Go for it.
Posted by: Troll King | October 26, 2003 05:04 PM
In Thailand, the default toast (like the Anglosphere 'Cheers') is "Chok Dee". It means "good luck'.
So (raising a glass) "Chok Dee, may you win that contest!"
Posted by: Kathy K | October 26, 2003 05:55 PM
Maybe your example will help me kick-start the research for my book idea on the history of U.S. wars with Islam. It's been going on longer than the past 30 years.
Posted by: Sean Hackbarth | October 26, 2003 09:58 PM
Same here...I've got so many unfinished ideas...today, though everything came together for one of them...it all makes sense now, I've been floating on a verbal high all day and shouting at my roomate to turn off the damned TV, no, I don't want to watch The Matrix Reloaded. Good luck...I'll buy a copy!
Posted by: DangerDave | October 26, 2003 10:46 PM
Argh. I signed up for NaNoWriMo too, but now that the pressure's on, I have no idea what I'm going to write about... everything I like to write is completely un-novelish... I'd rather do 50K words of short stories... ;)
Posted by: Chrissy | October 26, 2003 10:47 PM
It's a daunting task - I admire you for taking it on.
Best of luck!
Posted by: MikeR | October 27, 2003 01:51 AM