Ray's House of Love (Volume II)

KTC · Nov 20, 2009

I just hit page 50 on the third novel I'm editing! I can see the home stretch!!!!!!!!!

Some really good writing. I'm so impressed with the winners. The judges did a good job picking them.

I'm going to have to try doubly hard next year at the Muskoka marathon if these writers are going to be there again! The marathon is growing in popularity...I can't wait until next July to get up there and participate again!

Maryn · Nov 20, 2009

Ray, you do know that you can rent cabins and cottages all over the US by the week, right? What's in a reasonable drive from your present location? Me, I'd do one of the Finger Lakes, or maybe Cape Cod, but that's just me liking waterfront property and it being affordable once it cools.

Maryn, staying away from more rugged terrain until deer season is over.

Maryn · Nov 20, 2009

Right now, in terms of HoNoMo (both the 'love' and the 'write' are understood

), February's looking good.

Remember, the idea is to set your own goal. Maybe it's 50,000 words, like NaNoWriMo. Maybe it's 10,000. Or twenty poems, or an essay or short story polished and submitted. Whatever works in your real life with your real obligations and other demands on your time.

You, too, can be a winner!

Maryn, kind of a loser, but at Goodwill today, the person with the most teeth

KTC · Nov 20, 2009

honomo! i'm laughing too hard to read the rest of your post!

KTC · Nov 20, 2009

Okay. I guess I'm going to just go ahead and make my goal known right now.

FEBRUARY 2010 HONOMO GOAL:
-25,000 words of a novel that may or may not be in progress at the time. It's in my head right now, but not yet begun. I'm percolating.
-28 poems too...as I like to write a poem before I begin my daily writing. And 2010 is NOT a leap year.

Those are my goals. With your help, I hope to reach them!

Maryn · Nov 20, 2009

Way to be, Kevin!

Maryn, with a hearty pat on the back

Cassiopeia · Nov 20, 2009

Maryn said:
Right now, in terms of HoNoMo (both the 'love' and the 'write' are understood ), February's looking good.

Remember, the idea is to set your own goal. Maybe it's 50,000 words, like NaNoWriMo. Maybe it's 10,000. Or twenty poems, or an essay or short story polished and submitted. Whatever works in your real life with your real obligations and other demands on your time.

You, too, can be a winner!

Maryn, kind of a loser, but at Goodwill today, the person with the most teeth

I did say I was in for this. FebRUary is great for me.

and I'm all over the idea of working on a current WIP. I've one that Kevin started to read, that I really want to finish finally. I think I know how to do it too.

Cassiopeia · Nov 20, 2009

Oh, I should mention a good part of my day. I was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic AGAIN on I-15. I had taken my daughter to lunch at a wonderful Mideastern Restaurant (seriously to die for food and amazing service) and as I was stuck there, listening to music and singing along, I heard someone shouting and I look to my left thinking this guy was shouting across my car to the lane to my right so I slowed a little and he yells, "No no! YOU!" and points at me. And I motioned me? And he yells, "YES YOU".

At first I thought something was wrong but he was grinning from ear to ear. And I laughed and he hollars...woo That's it...LIKE THAT...and his buddy snapped a picture of me. And they waved good bye. They were going through the slow traffic picking women to make smile and get their picture. HE WAS GORGEOUS.

Ask me how much that made my century. Go ahead...JUST Ask.

ahahahaha

Kim, wondering where that photo is going to end up.

Komnena · Nov 21, 2009

Morning, House. I tried a hoodie for the first time. Maryn was right, they are good cold walking clothes. I'll watch the thrift stores for others. I gave Family Dollar ten dollars for a pale blue men's.

tjwriter · Nov 21, 2009

I would live in workout clothes if I could. Danskin Now at Walmart rocks and is totally affordable. I have some hoodies and I love those too.

Maryn · Nov 21, 2009

We used to have a Champion factory outlet store here. I got a hoodie marked $60 for $5, because it had a grease stain on the front. I have a washing machine and detergent. Problem solved.

I keep hoodies in two sizes for working out in the cold. The men's XXXL or whatever it is goes a good third of the way down my thighs and just beyond my hands, and is generous in the body, so I have a good-sized pocket of warm air around my core in colder walks.

Cassi, that's great! I got stuck in a traffic jam yesterday, too, a car accident not being managed well by the cops in terms of traffic. One lane was open, but we just didn't move as the oncoming traffic flowed without interruption--too many to risk a U-turn. I didn't want to be the second accident. Eventually someone realized traffic had backed up so far that intersections more than a mile away were gridlocked, and they let our lane go for a change.

Maryn, seeing firsthand that too many drivers are both stupid and selfish

Maryn · Nov 21, 2009

Cassi, what is your specific goal for HoNoMo in February? I'm trying to get something measurable out of each participant.

I'm still waffling on mine. Should I begin a rewrite of the WIP that's been resting since September? Write something new? Start over again on the trunked novel I recently reread and decided wasn't as awful as I'd thought? Decisions, decisions...

Maryn, who still has time

Cassiopeia · Nov 21, 2009

Maryn said:
Cassi, what is your specific goal for HoNoMo in February? I'm trying to get something measurable out of each participant.

I'm still waffling on mine. Should I begin a rewrite of the WIP that's been resting since September? Write something new? Start over again on the trunked novel I recently reread and decided wasn't as awful as I'd thought? Decisions, decisions...

Maryn, who still has time

I want to finish the rewrite of the remaining 30k word and bring the story to viable ending. I am doing a rewrite of an existing novel I started in 1996 from third pov to first pov. And fixing all the horrible (hangs head in embarrassment) and I do mean HORRIBLE prose.

I had trunked it but brought it out to try this and by golly it's not a half bad story when written properly.

so let me see

---finish rewrite of remaining word count
---complete the rest of story approximently end up needing 30k more

ETA: Okay so looking at that....I'll be grateful if I can rewrite the existing words of about 30-40k

Maryn · Nov 21, 2009

Attagirl!

We're just back from a walk that ran longer than expected because we got kind of turned around. Ended up tramping the woods for nearly two hours. We made it up to ourselves by going out to lunch, even though I was dressed pretty weird for Tim Horton's.

Maryn, who had chicken

Cassiopeia · Nov 21, 2009

I'm enjoying some Bancock Curry with chicken and veggies on rice noodles.

I didn't mention that I started exercising again. It's kind of like Do or Die here.

I managed a mile and a half on Thursday on the treadmill and yesterday was two miles on the treadmill, 5 miles on my recumbent cycle and five minutes boxing.

Kim, very sore today but glad to be doing it.

Maryn · Nov 21, 2009

For anybody over, say, forty, an exercise program can be pretty daunting. Things hurt despite good form, warming up, decent shoes, and everything else. And we just have to soldier on and do the best we can, right? My second toe hurts as if I'd kicked a brick wall. What the hell? I've had these shoes for months. They fit. I didn't kick anything, or even stumble. And what's the deal with my back?

I mentioned at the erotica board that another board I visit daily was doing a modified version of NaNoWriMo in February, and did they want to, too? Several do. I present the name for the effort, coined by Wayne K: PorNoWriMo. Do you love it, or what?

Maryn, still chuckling

NeuroFizz · Nov 21, 2009

I'm sitting here, stomach full, having just finished a dinner of marinated salmon filet and brown rice, and a dessert of fresh-baked chocolate-chipless chocolate chip cookies*. And I just started a few logs burning in the fireplace. With college football on the tube, I feel the urge to do some writing. It may be a late night tonight if I can keep the fires going (the writing one and the fireplace one).

*I eat well when I'm on my own, but I'm also stepping up the exercise program. I'm down to 204 lbs, within my current target of 200-205.

Cassiopeia · Nov 21, 2009

NeuroFizz said:
I'm sitting here, stomach full, having just finished a dinner of marinated salmon filet and brown rice, and a dessert of fresh-baked chocolate-chipless chocolate chip cookies*. And I just started a few logs burning in the fireplace. With college football on the tube, I feel the urge to do some writing. It may be a late night tonight if I can keep the fires going (the writing one and the fireplace one).

*I eat well when I'm on my own, but I'm also stepping up the exercise program. I'm down to 204 lbs, within my current target of 200-205.

Sounds like heaven, sweets. I just finished writing 10k for the day. I'm now at 40, 028 on my Nano. I never thought I could do this.

um...can I come eat at your place and write in front of the fire too?

Kim, who has a fireplace but likes to have company in the silence but for the sound of keys happily being tapped along the way as a story unfolds.

NeuroFizz · Nov 21, 2009

I'll put the coffee on...

Cassiopeia · Nov 21, 2009

NeuroFizz said:
I'll put the coffee on...

woot! um, can I have hot chocolate? I'm caffeine free these days.

NeuroFizz · Nov 21, 2009

Is Ghirardelli peppermint cocoa okay?

Komnena · Nov 22, 2009

I tried on the smaller clothes and I can actually zip them up!!!They're tight,of course but I know now that the diet and exercise are working!!! I didn't really expect results this fast.

Cassiopeia · Nov 22, 2009

NeuroFizz said:
Is Ghirardelli peppermint cocoa okay?

oh my gosh...do the stars shine in a clear sky at night?

Cassiopeia · Nov 22, 2009

Komnena said:
I tried on the smaller clothes and I can actually zip them up!!!They're tight,of course but I know now that the diet and exercise are working!!! I didn't really expect results this fast.

Best feeling in the world! congrats

sassandgroove · Nov 22, 2009

let me finish nano b/f i commit to honowrimo. but i like the sound of it.

my weekend hasn't gone as planned. not bad, just no writing. i'm going to try to get some in after this. but i shouldn't have to go to the store for a while.

i do have thurs, fri, sat and sun this coming week. i am baking for thurs, but dinner isn't until 5pm.

sass- eating pizza

Ray's House of Love (Volume II)

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I Tried

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