I wrote my 1,000 words for today. Did you?

I wrote my 1,000 words today, so NOW I can play.

Yep, the short story's moving along quite fine right now. It's currently at about 7,100 words, as opposed to 1,500 about a week ago.

So now I'm offically allowed to be here (even though I did sneak in for a little while earlier.).

How about you? Did you write your 1,000 words today? Or did you just slack off and hang out on AW all day?

Any slackers around here? Anybody?

What's WriYe?

I expected everyone to jump all over this thread. I mean, since writers, by definition, actually write, I thought there would be more results from the people around here. Good for all of you who actually wrote something today, whether it was greater than or less than 1,000 words.

Jo Scott said:

BTW Alan, I seen a photo of the singer in your signature...bad way to die, she died in her pj's. I'm morbid too, sorry.

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She was driving in her pj's? Good Lord.

She's one of my top three singers/rappers. Same with Aaliyah. I got hooked into their music because of the publicity they both got when they died. And they were both very young when it happened. Aaliyah was extremely young (22 years old, but already with 3 albums and several movie deals to her name) and Lisa/Left Eye was 30.

And it's amazing that both of these people who've passed on are two of the singers I admire most.

Jo Scott said:

Alan, yes, its on a site called Dead Celebrity or something like that?...very morbid, Marilyn Monroe and I share a birthday June 1...mine is in 78 however. She didn't look at all like herself. I think I even read where people broke into the funeral home to have their way with her body...some people are sick.

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That is sickening. There were millions of fans, fellow artists, and her TLC group members T-Boz and Chilli (at least I assume they were; they were like sisters for 10 years) at her funeral crying for her (everyone also cried when Aaliyah died), and it's terrible that some sick people have the guts to do that.

I can imagine how she looked. For the sake of everyone else, I won't go into more detail about her death. What I will say, however, is that she was the driver, she was the only one who was killed, and despite her horrific death, some of the other passengers have sued her estate, blaming her for the injuries they received during the accident.

I do admit that I like Aaliyah's music better than her movies. Because filming the "Rock the Boat" video was the last thing she was doing before she died, watching the video is undeniably creepy and still gives me goosebumps. I plan on taking a trip to the Bahamas one day (the islands are so beautiful anyway), perhaps see if I meet up with Zonk, and go to the spots where they shot the video and where the plane crashed. It may not be pretty to remember what happened there, but the sight-seeing places are gorgeous.

Jo Scott said:

OH Found it! http://www.celebritymorgue.com/

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Oh dammit Jo, I'm not sure I really want to see a picture of Lisa/Left Eye's dead body. I would not be prepared to see that.

ETA: It appears that it isn't on that website anymore. Thank goodness.

Jo Scott said:

I seen her photo however and it wasn't too bad, looked like she had a slight bump on the head, not all the gore you might think. That is prob. why it isn't there, not enough blood and guts galore...I had a friend die in a car accident just two months ago and I still cry.

I know he was tore up pretty bad, he was rebuilt just for us to see him. I won't get over his baby being there looking down at him (his son looked just like him) and I tear up when I pass the wreck site.

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Yeah, it might not have been that gory. She died of head and neck trauma (which explains the bump on the head). She had lost control of the car and ended up in a roadside ravine in Honduras.