Stuff On Top

Nov 2, 2002 - 12 a.m. 
 

Is it weird that I have a hidden crush for Christine Cushing?
is it even weirder that I call a crush that I just announced on my web site as hidden?

 Ok, so this is the other document I have open right now.  You know, the one I can use to capture stray thoughts as I write the novel thing.  But every time I pop over here and write something down, something strange and stream of consciousness, I will announce the word count.  That way we will be able to see if I am spending too much time wasting my stream.

 2292 Words.
Where should I be at this point….well the goal for the day is 3400 words…or rather that is where I need to be to not be behind. I would be happier if I had 7000 words before I went to sleep tonight.  I don’t’ really want to have to leave huge amounts of writing for my weeknights. 

Writing has been slow but not difficult.  Meaning, when I put my fingers to the keys, they go…I just have to get my fingers to the keys.  Know what I mean?

Something disconcerting…did you know that Word doesn’t always automatically determine where it would like page breaks. I didn’t know that it didn’t just always do this.  Let’s just say that I was writing and writing and writing…waiting to be done page one and it never came. It was totally disconcerting…it was like I wasn’t getting anywhere.  And then I noticed, one of the 400 times an hour I check the word count that it lists how many pages the document is there as well and I was at 3 pages.   Who knew.

 2292 Words
Hey!  Strange Brew is on.

Ha, good thing I only started watching that a half hour in, or else it would have been a full hour and a half without any writing done, instead it was only an hour.  But it’s not like you get to see strange brew on all that often.

2292 Words

2650 Words
Ok, I have now left the house today. Just once but that’s important. I went to the store and bought some bread and some bacon.  An important part of the BCT’s I had for supper. You know bacon, cheese and tomato sandwiches.  They were so very good.  I also bought some Doritos, a very necessary literary aid, I think.

2815 Words
What do you suppose is with the cat that thinks my chest is the best place to stick his ass when I am trying to write?

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My cat and I are at war. He had fallen in love with a stuffed monkey that is almost the same size as he is.  This stuffed monkey has lived, for the past 3 years, on an elephant, without anyone bothering it.  Sitting there looking cool and debonair.  Now, isaac, who I am told has a propensity for liking to slaughter and eat stuffed animals, has taken a notion that this is what he wants.  So he likes to sneak over there and grab it, sinking his teeth into the top of the monkey’s head and tooth it for a while.  Then he takes it and dumps it head first into his food bowl.  I don’t really know why he does this. 

   It’s moderately freakish when you think about it.  I don’t really like the idea of him chewing on my monkey.  So every time he puts it in his bowl, I put it back on the elephant (I know, I know, a smarter, more mature cat owner would just put the elephant somewhere where the cat couldn’t get at it).  And when I see him approaching the monkey, I tell him no.  When I see him with the monkey, I tell him now.  When he chooses to ignore the no, I get up, or a spritz him. 

   As I said, we are having a little war.

 Side note, this entry has now reached 600 words.  If had typed this many words into my novel, I would be 400 words over the point I have to be at for today.

3444 Words
That’s all I need for today to be on target. However I would like to keep going, as I want to be ahead before the week ahead.

4155 Words…and that’s probably all for tonight.