On plotting

"Shakespeare stole his plots, and you can, too."

hell, yeah! *laughs* God knows I can't plot.

Choose one (say, boy meets girl), maybe give it a little bit of a shake, and insert. Write.

I say, thank god for Dickens and Dumas.

well. here I am.

Progress Notes Aug 07, 2006:

The Red Sea

New Words: 1750
Total Words: 2750
Pages: 11
Deadline: Well, now, I guess.
Reason for stopping: Finished.
Stimulants: Decaf, with a smidgeon of instant regular in it. That's a bad habit I'm going to have to break.
Exercise: None yet, but I have stuff to return to the library.
Words I'm surprised Word knows: undersurface
Words I'm surprised Word doesn't know: doughily
Mean Things: Hope.
Typo du jour: n/a
Darling du jour:

The owner's wife just stared at the radio, as if she could see through it, hand on her chest, clasping a squeeze bottle of French's mustard between her pink tank-topped breasts.

Books in progress: Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, vol. I. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man.
Books finished: Rex Stout, The Golden Spiders. John Mortimor's Rumpole and the Angel of Death.
The glamour: White wine last night with dinner. A little too tart for me. Watched Buckaroo Banzai on Saturday, for fun.

And here's news! Lawrence of Arabia will be playing at my local movie theater on August 21st!