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Pages: 96
As with the end of my adventure with NaNoWriMo, work has threatened to keep me (us) from succeeding. I’ve been doing various on-call-like activities all day that have kept me on my feet and away from the keyboard. Even this evening, while Geoff was frantically tugging my tired corpse across the finish line, work threw a lasso around my feet and tried to drag me the other way. Geoff was victorious, however.
We’re not technically “done” with the screenplay, we have almost the entire closing scene to construct, and a couple (more like 50) scenes that are in need of some serious tuning and pruning, but I’m not in the mood to spend any serious time wrestling with this thing. My mind has wandered onto new thoughts, like writing novels, exorcising Geoff’s computer, curing aids, writing computery programs, playing the video games, etc, etc, more etc, writing short stories and maybe another screenplay.
Words written: 19,010
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Pages: 92
I stopped writing early tonight to play the wonderful Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta. Now that I’m done doing that, I think I shall write some more. I’m on call this weekend, and judging how the first hour and forty-five minutes of it have gone, it’s gonna be a shitty weekend. Also, I’m on call next week, which means that I will probably end my life on Independence Day, because it is a holiday, and none of my coworkers will be coming in. It’d be fitting I suppose, to commit suicide on the 4th, freeing myself from the chains of my labor.
Anywho, Geoff and I shall be skipping, strolling, racing, running, galloping, walking and dragging ourselves across the finish line roughly twenty-four hours from now. I’m excited. So excited, that I’m gonna go write some more crappy dialog to get us even closer.
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Pages: 90
We’re drawing nearer to the end and things are getting a LOT easier for me to write. I’m not even wrapping things up; I’m still creating more conflict and drama. I guess those are the key ingredients of any good story.
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Yup. We’re almost done. It’s a good feeling.
I didn’t write today, and it felt pretty good.
My parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. We had dinner last night with both sets of my grandparents and my dad cooked an enormous amount of food. For those of you who have been privileged enough to sample some of my father’s culinary delights, you would be correct in assuming that our dinner was of 5 star caliber. For those of you who have yet to dine at my house, you’ll just have to take my word for it.
My dad’s parents celebrated their 50th last year (if I recall correctly) and my mom’s parents will be celebrating their 50th next year (I believe). So you could safely assume that my family is big on “family”. We have no shortage of it, and hold it high as one of our most valued treasures in this world. The commitment is there and very real. I swear that I have never seen my parents fight…not once in the 22 years that I have known them. They are human, and have had their differences and disagreements over the years (both of them will quickly admit to this); I still haven’t seen them.
How many people do you know who are still married after 25 years. How many people do you know that have been married 25 years and are still in love? How many people do you know that have been married 50 years and are still in love? I’ve known of several examples throughout my years. I hope and pray that I will experience the same kind of love in my lifetime, and I hope that those who might read this will have the same for themselves.
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Geoff is leaving for Chicago tomorrow, and will be gone / unable to write until Friday of this week. That’s alright though, because he cranks out words like people in this town have kids. I could probably not write a damn thing until he gets back, and he’d still finish it for us before he went to bed on Friday night. I’ll be able to keep us going though; I DID complete NaNoWriMo remember?
Geoff wrote today, while I chilled out. I was expecting that our characters had gone back in time, cured cancer, developed another appendage, or overdosed on acid and discovered a hidden portal to heaven under their kitchen sink. Unfortunately, Geoff’s computer decided to make our travels a little bit more difficult, and somehow lost the 1,500+ words that he had crafted this evening. You never know what’s going to happen when Geoff takes over :) It’s all good though, we’ll only be a day behind, and if both of us write at least 667 words tomorrow, no one will know the difference…well, except for Geoff and I, assuming that Geoff doesn’t run out in front of a bus. I suppose that whoever reads this would know as well…………you can’t prove nothing!
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It’s hard to believe that we are approaching our last week. I’m trying to piece together the story for another screenplay or novel, that I will begin shortly after June is over. If anyone would care to join me, the pace I am going to assume is 500 - 1000 words per day.
Words written: 14,685
Remaining: 5,315
Percent complete: 73.4%
Pages: 70
I skipped yesterday. I decided to play some Geometry Wars after work, then went to bed early (for me at least). Even though we’re close to 75% done, for some reason we’re only at seventy pages; we should be at ninety pages, and I don’t know why this is, but I blame Geoff anyway.
I’m currently reading “On Writing” by Stephen King. I haven’t read much of his work, but this book makes me want to consume them all. As well as write my own.
Time for some more Geometry Wars, then “The Prestige” then maybe something productive, then bed.