My character got arrested today. Again. And I got sucked down the interwebs rabbit hole trying to find a picture of a Victorian version of a paddy wagon. Only I couldn’t find one, even though kept clicking and clicking. In the end, I returned to the story and just made up what kind of wagon […]
Archives for November 2014
NaNoWriMo – Day Twenty-One
I have no idea what I just wrote. I do know that I packed 4,396 words, which is the most words I’ve written in one day, in a long time. And, incidentally, I hit 100,278 total words today. I credit my newly burgeoning habit of writing every day, thanks to NaNoWriMo, and my supportive friends, […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Nineteen and Twenty
I’m still at it, and running out of steam! I’m glad the weekend is coming, because then I’ll get that big block of time both before and after writing. Jack and Oliver are currently getting drunk at the tavern in Lyme Regis. I don’t know the name of the tavern, but one I’m inventing here […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Eighteen
First I futzed around with Pintrest, then I futzed around with Facebook (I know, right?), then I futzed for a good long time on Tumblr. In between times, I futzed with my email. And then my other email. Then I went back to Tumblr. By the time I should be relaxing for the day, I realized I’d […]
My Dark Shadows Screenplay
During the summer when I was 12, I was obsessed with Dark Shadows, the original TV show that ran from 1966 to 1971. It was a soap opera, the first of its kind, with a Gothic theme and spooky but unspecified happenings. It is the only soap opera to have two MGM movies (House of […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Seventeen
Making a new habit is a struggle, and I’m feeling every bit of it. Yesterday, writing was easier because I had all that time; today, coming home from work and writing, was hard! But no one said this would be easy, right? Here’s the current word count: Day One – 1,998 Day Two – 2,122 […]