Diana's Writing Blog

So, I’m going to be pingpong-ing across the U.P. for the next few weekends since my friends and family can’t seem to coordinate their visits. Hopefully I’ll squeeze in some time to write. I’ve got a week and a half before the end of the month and about 20,000 more words to go. Yeah, I fell behind last weekend.

In other news, I was all psyched up to continue my NanoWrimo novel from 2005 next. Except I can’t find my outline or character notes. I can find the 2,500 words I wrote (I got a boyfriend that month) but not the pre-work that I could swear I did. Plus, I’m missing any trace of the other novel I was interested in. I’m thinking I cooked them up back when I was still writing things hard copy. Which means I have to take a little trip into the file cabinet. Yikes.

Anyway, here’s my progress, such as it is:

It’s cold and snowy up here. I know, shocker. We did have Subway for lunch today, on the company, which is always nice. Plus, Janelle stocked up on soda which I NEED to function, so that was good.

Speaking of stocking up, I should go across the bridge and get more soda and refill my prescription. But I probably won’t because it is snowy and I am lazy.

Oh, and I learned we all get evaluations this month here at the company. That’s kind of worrisome. It’s not like I’ve missed deadlines or anything, but as you can tell, I sometimes blog or write during company time. Mostly when I’m watching the phones for Janelle or waiting for stuff I’m working on to print, but still. Plus, my boss is out of the country until next Tuesday, so I’m running low on stuff to keep me busy. And that just makes me feel kind of useless in general.

In a completely unrelated turn of events, I’m done with my writing quota for today:

Well, off to sneak left over sub and chips out of the break room for supper.

Well, my writing is kicking along nicely. Editing has kind of stalled. It’s just not easy to go from doing the get-it-down-fix-it-later type of writing to hard core editing. I find myself just reading through my editing novel without stopping to try and work out the parts that bother me. Maybe I’ll reserve Saturday for editing and write 4,000 Sunday.

But I’m going home this weekend, and that’s where I had my new books shipped, so maybe my new editing book will inspire me to edit properly.

Had another blizzard this weekend. I felt bad for all the Winter Carnival people out trying to enjoy the sculptures.

I stayed inside and watched season 1 of Veronica Mars all weekend. I own season 1 and 2, and it’s a surprisingly re-watchable show. The writing’s good, and the multiple story lines are interesting. Plus there are several flavors of teh hottness to enjoy.

Also, ended up watching a few episodes of Band of Brothers that was randomly on the History channel, mostly because Neal McDonough’s in it and I <3 him. It turned out to be really interesting in an “I want to watch the entire series, but not enough to buy it” kind of way. Wish I had Netflix…

In other news, could every website I ever gave my email to stop sending me messages about V-Day? No, Tiger Direct, Firebox.com, Torrid, and Amazon.com, I’m NOT stuck for Valentine’s Day gifts, and if I was, I wouldn’t ask YOU! Jeebus!

Anyway, despite my Veronica Mars watching, I managed to actually keep to my writing\editing goals during the weekend. And I finished early today: