A Good Writing Day

Yesterday was another good day. Jeff and I sat in bed, drinking coffee and talking, until pretty late. We took showers, then went out to Big Jake's for lunch. As soon as we got there, my stomach started to bother me. I didn't let it get me down. I was determined to have a good time, and I did. :)

When we got back, I got to work on some character journal entries. I transcribed some, then wrote some new ones. I posted them all, did some online stuff, then decided to work on my new character. I wrote his first character journal entry, then wrote a scene for him. The scene didn't come out quite right, so I'm going to write a new version...hopefully today.

My word count breakdown looks like this:

Kalaghata (CJ Entry): 282
Sharva (CJ Entry): 333
Rajni (CJ Entry): 292
Kalaghata (Story): 766
Abu (CJ Entry): 604
Abu (Scene): 2,007
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Total: 4,284

As always, I'm excited about my new character. He's in a separate story from the one I've been working on. He's into a lot of illegal black market stuff, but something's going to happen that will bring him out of that world...well, at least it will convince him to go legitimate. He starts out as a pretty bad man, but is redeemed by the end. It's not a romance by any stretch of the imagination, but love will be the major thing that influences his decision to turn his back on his very successful life of crime. :)

I'm still excited about my other characters, too, but I really need to sit down and go over what I've got and start laying the groundwork. I need to start doing the actual writing soon.

As for ScriptFrenzy, I'm thinking this newest story will be the one I make into a script. It just has that feel to it. I'll eventually turn the others into scripts, but this one will be the first. I'm really looking forward to it! :D

Today, Jeff and I will be doing our grocery shopping. I don't know how much time I'll have for writing, but I hope to have a couple hours to work on it, at least.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Lois

TGIF...And Not Thursday Anymore!

Yesterday was a day I'd mostly love to forget. It was rainy all day, I had a tension headache that just kept getting worse throughout the day, and I spent about five hours at the courthouse only to be rejected by the defense attorney. I wish I could have just served and gotten it over with. I'm scheduled to go in again on Monday. I hope I don't have to go in again...at all!

To top things off, I couldn't find a pay phone. I walked all the way to the library...in the rain...and they let me use their phone. All the way, I was really angry that I didn't have my own phone. Chelsey had it because the Concorde's been having problems and we don't want her to get stranded with no means of communicating. The one nice thing about the walk to the library was the exercise I got along the last leg of the trip...all uphill.

I finally got a hold of Jeff. Chelsey and Eric had called him because they needed to take the Concorde to the shop (the check engine light came on). He picked me up half an hour later and took me to Taco Bell to get something light to eat (I hadn't eaten all day).

I managed to do some writing at the courthouse, but I'm not sure what my word count is. I wrote two character journal entries, then a little bit for my newest story.

Jeff and I watched Mission Istanbul again last night. I have got to buy it! It's a great movie. :) I've already got the MP3 soundtrack, which I absolutely love.

This morning, I've come up with an idea for a new story. For now, I'm going to start a document to save all my ideas to. I don't know if it will be for my new characters...probably not...but it promises to be very exciting, if I can do it justice. :)

I'm not sure what we have planned today...besides going to the bank. Eric and Chelsey got their taxes back and they paid us for stuff, so we want to put it in the bank.

Have a great day!

Lois

A Quick Update:

I have to go in for jury duty today. Actually, I'm sure it's jury selection. I'm going to go through Hindi music withdrawal, writing withdrawal and Internet withdrawal. I know it! Hopefully, I won't be there for more than half a day.

Yesterday, I wrote 3,205 words. 839 were in my new story. The rest were character journals. Not bad. :)

Anyway, I've got to finish up on here. I don't know when I'll get a chance to get caught up on friends pages. Maybe I'll take the day off from writing just to catch up.

Jeff and I watched Mission Istanbul last night. WOW! This movie kept me on the edge of my seat pretty much all the way through. The only strange thing about it was that almost half way through, the mood changed from purely intense and dangerous to intense, dangerous and humorous. They added humor shortly after they added the mysterious character, Rizwan(sp?) Khan. I loved it though, and it has some great dance music. :)

Well, I don't have a lot of time, so I'd better hurry up and get off here.

Have a great day!

Lois

Guess I'm Not As Finished As I Thought

Yesterday was a good day. I wrote 3,339 words in my new story. I thought it was finished, but after reading it last night, I see it needs more. The ending is too abrupt. So, I'll be working on that for today's Wednesday Writing Sprints.

I had Josiah back here for about an hour yesterday. We watched music videos on my laptop. He fell asleep toward the end and his mom and dad took him back out to the other room. :)

Jeff and I had dinner at Burger King before he took me to sweet Bay. That was fun. Then I got a decaf spiced chai latte at Sweet Bay.

Not much else is going on here. Just a lot of writing. And I have to call about jury duty tonight. I have a list of things I need to do, so it won't be a boring day...just not much to "write home about." ;)

Have a good one.

Lois

Busy and Loving It

Yesterday, I wrote 2,828 words in my new story. It's not as much as I wanted to write, but I'm happy with it. I never wrote any character journal entries last night either, but I'm okay with that, too. It was nice to spend time with Hubby. :)

I have a lot to do today. I have all the usual online stuff, as well as working on my story and a character journal or two. I also need to edit some photos at some point, look over my friend's character workshop and give feedback for it, as well as feedback for jakflak's book. It's nice being busy, as long as people understand that it might take a while.

I downloaded two MP3 soundtracks yesterday (Kaminey and Vivah) and one today (Mission: Istanbul). I'm really loving them! They're making me want to learn Hindi. Anyone know a good foreign language course? ;) I want to save up for that really expensive one...I forget the name, but it uses the immersion method. I think it's $300...or more.

I'm hoping to go to Sweet Bay tonight. If no one else shows up, I still have things I can do...stuff I can download.

It's very cloudy this morning and it's supposed to rain. Our high is only supposed to be 48°. I may use this weather to my advantage. It's great for writing atmosphere into a story, something I need to really work on.

I hope you all have a great day! :D

Lois

Another Manic Monday

It's only manic because I want to write. I want to write a lot! :)

I wrote more in my notebook than I did on the laptop yesterday. Actually, the character journal entry was transcribed: 981 words. Last night, I wrote some more in my story, using pen and paper: 1,470 words. Awesome! :D

Today, I'm hoping to write more, but I've got to finish up online first. I have to finish posting, then get caught up on my friends pages.

So far, I don't have any feedback to write today. I had one to revise and one to write yesterday. They're both posted.

Thursday is jury duty, so I have to call in on Wednesday. I hope I don't ever have to go in, but we'll see. I'm not holding my breath. ;)

Well, I'd better hurry up. Another short, boring post, I know. Hopefully, my life will become more interesting soon (preferably in a good way). :P

Have a good one!

Lois

Writing Again!

I'm getting a late start posting this entry because I had some feedback to write and revise. Now I can work on catching up a little bit, but I don't think I'll be able to catch up on everything. I guess we'll see...

Anyway, I wrote a character journal entry last night. I wrote it the old fashioned way- with pen and paper. I still have to transcribe it, so I don't know what my word count is yet.

I was going to write a stand alone scene, but decided to pass on it for now. At this point, it doesn't fit the characters I have it in mind for, so it'll have to wait a while.

I'm hoping to work on my new story some today, but if I'm going to do that, I need to hurry up on here.

I've also got a few photos I want to post, but they need to be edited first. Hopefully, I'll get to them this week. Better late than never, right? ;)

Have a great day!

Lois