Old People Writing for Teens, IV

Blahhh. Took the kid to McD's and let her play on the indoor playground thing while I made another attempt at starting a synopsis for my WIP. Aproximate words written: 15. Exact count of words NOT deleted: 0.

Then drove home with the spawn throwing a fit (along with her water cup), put her down for nap, and fell down the effing stairs! Like, from the top. Slid down on my right hip, then had to trek back UP to reassure spawn that I was okay (which I am, but I am going to have some pretty impressive bruises, I can tell already).

Still have to go grocery shopping. And the husband will probably have to work late tonight. And it is my night to bathe the kid and put her to bed. And the kitchen is a mess. And the floors all need sweeping/vacuuming. So I will be pretty much "on duty" until after 8pm tonight. >.<;;

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Ouch, justbishop! That sucks. Especially the falling down the stairs part.

No word on my car yet, but I wrote 3,000 words today and loved most of them, so I'm feeling pretty good.

lisalulu09 said:

Dorothy, I'm looking at your blog. It's pretty!

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Thanks!

justbishop said:

Then drove home with the spawn throwing a fit (along with her water cup), put her down for nap, and fell down the effing stairs! Like, from the top. Slid down on my right hip, then had to trek back UP to reassure spawn that I was okay (which I am, but I am going to have some pretty impressive bruises, I can tell already).

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Ouch! Careful there. Guess you're having one of those days. I hate when that happens. Hope tomorrow turns it all around for you.

Stiger05 said:

No word on my car yet, but I wrote 3,000 words today and loved most of them, so I'm feeling pretty good.

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Awesome word count! Go, go, go!

Hi Everyone! Loved the wine on the deck picture, JB. That's my kind of night. Hope y'all are writing furiously and achieving word count goals.

Speaking of word count goals... I'm a little obsessed with them. I might or might not check every five minutes. I'm trying to come up with a reasonable word count goal for my WIP. Is there general agreement that 100,000 is the "magic" number for not exceeding when querying?

BTW, I'm not even close to 100,000... Just trying to get a general idea.

yellowhammer said:

Hi Everyone! Loved the wine on the deck picture, JB. That's my kind of night. Hope y'all are writing furiously and achieving word count goals.

Speaking of word count goals... I'm a little obsessed with them. I might or might not check every five minutes. I'm trying to come up with a reasonable word count goal for my WIP. Is there general agreement that 100,000 is the "magic" number for not exceeding when querying?

BTW, I'm not even close to 100,000... Just trying to get a general idea.

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For a debut Ya, I'd stick closer to the 80K mark. Unless you're writing pure fantasy. Then 100 is probably good. My book is currently at 67K, but we'll see where the word count stands after edits. The most important thing is that your writing is tight.

Thanks Dorothy! That's good to know! Happy writing!

I have returned!!

Hey everyone!

Yay for great word counts!
Yay for getting copy edits! (Boo for the stress of getting said copy edits!)
Yay for being back!
Boo for being sick
Quadruple boo for having to write a synopsis, and for tantruming child, and falling down the stairs, and for too much house work to do and for hubs not coming home until after 8pm!!!!!!!!!!!

{{hugs}} Melly. Here...have a good book review
I'm sorry you have to deal with a tantrum - that sucks.

Thanks guys! The husband came home and fawned over me, then took over kid duty, so I've been vegging in bed since then. Wow am I gonna be stiff as a board tomorrow!

Vegging out.Sounds great. What have you been doing?

Just eating a sandwich and watching a really cool miniseries about the early NASA missions on Netflix. The kid is in bed and the husband is hanging out in bed with me watching episode 7 of Downton Abbey

Really wish I'd bought something chocolate at the grocery store today, though

That sounds like a wicked miniseries. I love geeky stuff like that

Sorry about the chocolate. *hands you the only chocolatey thing in her house....chocolate syrup *

Smiley0501 said:

{{hugs}} Melly. Here...have a good book review
I'm sorry you have to deal with a tantrum - that sucks.

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LOL Wasn't me dealing with that. Was doing a quick (lazy) post to everyone else's posts.

But, I will check out the book review!

whoops sorry Mel

Anyone else watching the premiere of Bunheads??

Gah! I was JUST going to ask that, Smiley! I missed it. It looks cute but a little to "clean" for my taste. I prefer Supernatural, TB, Walking Dead, Dexter...you know, stuff like that

I read and commented on your blog

The mc of Bunheads talks like Lorelei Gilmore if that helps any... It's cute (a little awkward weird). I'm probably going to review it tomorrow

Also, Mel, re: What's L3ft 0f Me cover/coloring- The real issue I had was with the spine. You literally cannot read the title if you see it on the spine It makes me really sad because I enjoyed the book but it might be hard to want to pick up just by spine if you can't read the title.

Smiley0501 said:

That sounds like a wicked miniseries. I love geeky stuff like that

Sorry about the chocolate. *hands you the only chocolatey thing in her house....chocolate syrup *

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I think it was called When We Left Earth. Highly recommend

And thanks for the thought, lol. That was the only thing we have in our house as well. The husband brought me the bag of marshmallows, and said he thought about drizzling them with chocolate syrup, but knew I'd probably find it icky xD

Thanks!

And oooh marshmellows. I roasted those last night over a fire

Hmm trying to think of how to review premiere of Bunheads It is Gilmore Girls with ballet.....minus the young mom/daughter...

I watched it Smiley!

I love that it's a lot like GG but still its own show, except with the same music, ha! I enjoyed the first episode, we'll see how the others go.

Smiley, ah okay. That's makes sense and is really bad for marketing/Sales for sure!

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The husband brought me the bag of marshmallows, and said he thought about drizzling them with chocolate syrup, but knew I'd probably find it icky xD

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That sounds a little kinky. You might want to reconsider after the day you had with the spawn.

Your child must be toddler aged. All my kids went insane from 15 months until about age 4. My condolences. Some days are really hard! Good thing they are so cute.

Smiley, where have you been?