February 2012
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Monday Word Count
Last week’s total: 4200
This week’s count: 369
Total: 4569
Sometimes there will just be these weeks. But I keep writing. I have to.
Monday Word Count
Last week’s total: 2692
This week’s count: 1508
Total: 4200
Not too bad considering I finished some quilting deadlines. Now, let’s just hope it doesn’t take me three weeks to finish reading Stoner. Although I’ve hit a wall with it - Edith is making me tense.
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Her name was Rita Achenbach. She was short and feisty with tussled brown hair. She walked and talked fast - in a hurry, very busy, and always purposeful. She was tough but emotional and always cried when we talked about the Vietnam War. She smoked - Marlboros I presumed. I saw her husband a few times. He drove an old Ford Bronco, wore white t-shirts and a cowboy hat and mustache without irony in a...
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Monday Word Count
Last week’s count: 2008
This week’s count: 684
Total: 2692
In defense of my numbers, I am working with a few quilting deadlines…Oh, the excuses never end!
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of...”
– from Stoner by John Williams
A confession
I often think about my reaction to my writing after becoming a mother. This is how it felt. Thankfully, it no longer feels this way:
But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense....
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Monday Word Count
This week’s count: 530
Total: 2008
I’m not quite sure the point of this exercise other than to make myself feel badly for not writing more. I’m hoping public shaming* will force me to make more time to write.**
*As if anyone reads this.
**Yes, I’m going to put the blame not on me but the rest of my life. I don’t want to feel too badly about it.