DAY 4 STATUS: 8,564 WORDS
I completed about 1900 words today, which wasn't my best so far this week, but it's also not bad. It's better than the 1,667 minimum to reach the goal by month's end.
Today was a rough day. Personal issues are getting in the way of sitting down to write. It was difficult getting the kids out the door today; I had an appointment with a social group of which I'm president, and I had to help develop the budget. Then I offered to drive one of the other members--who has no car--home, forgetting just how bad the roads around here are right now.
What, exactly, were the powers that be thinking when they closed and/or significantly limited throughput on every major north-south transportation artery through this town? Not to mention, they've completely closed a road by my house, and now they're repaving the intersection that is on the only direct route to my house. Needless to say, it took me a long time to get back home, and this significantly ate into my writing time before the kids come home.
Lucky for me, they both have after school events today, although I'm expecting one of them home any second now...
On the bright side, I have been able to read over a hundred pages (yes, pages--it's not on my Kindle) of THE LOST HERO. I'm enjoying this one as much as the other Rick Riordan books, although I'm beginning to notice his narrator's voice is always the same, regardless of who is ostensibly talking. The the Percy Jackson series, that was okay, because you thought it was Percy Jackson. But THE RED PYRAMID has two main characters, one male and one female, and they both sound...like Percy Jackson. For this book, it's a third person narrator following three characters' points of view, and it sounds...like Percy Jackson.
Oh, well. It's a quibbling detail. The truth is, Riordan's plots are impeccable, he knows his mythology, and these books are all romping good reads, so two thumbs up so far.
Back to the grindstone...
I completed about 1900 words today, which wasn't my best so far this week, but it's also not bad. It's better than the 1,667 minimum to reach the goal by month's end.
Today was a rough day. Personal issues are getting in the way of sitting down to write. It was difficult getting the kids out the door today; I had an appointment with a social group of which I'm president, and I had to help develop the budget. Then I offered to drive one of the other members--who has no car--home, forgetting just how bad the roads around here are right now.
What, exactly, were the powers that be thinking when they closed and/or significantly limited throughput on every major north-south transportation artery through this town? Not to mention, they've completely closed a road by my house, and now they're repaving the intersection that is on the only direct route to my house. Needless to say, it took me a long time to get back home, and this significantly ate into my writing time before the kids come home.
Lucky for me, they both have after school events today, although I'm expecting one of them home any second now...
On the bright side, I have been able to read over a hundred pages (yes, pages--it's not on my Kindle) of THE LOST HERO. I'm enjoying this one as much as the other Rick Riordan books, although I'm beginning to notice his narrator's voice is always the same, regardless of who is ostensibly talking. The the Percy Jackson series, that was okay, because you thought it was Percy Jackson. But THE RED PYRAMID has two main characters, one male and one female, and they both sound...like Percy Jackson. For this book, it's a third person narrator following three characters' points of view, and it sounds...like Percy Jackson.
Oh, well. It's a quibbling detail. The truth is, Riordan's plots are impeccable, he knows his mythology, and these books are all romping good reads, so two thumbs up so far.
Back to the grindstone...
1900 on a "bad day" is really great.
Cheer: Chris, Chris, she's our Miss. Write, write, can't stop to p...
Hmmm, I'll have to work on that one.
Posted by: kathie lofts | 11/04/2010 at 02:18 PM