It’s Friday! Let’s shimmy, shake, and dance it up!
Why do I always make you dance with me on Fridays? Hmm, maybe I need to find a better way to celebrate the fact we’ve made it to the end of the week?…Or maybe not? I like dancing and this is my blog, so…
Yep, my decision’s made. We shall keep dancing on Fridays. Beware! 😉
A quick sum up of my week goes likes this:
I wrote.
A lot.
Okay, okay. I didn’t write as much as I needed to. Honestly, it was one of those weeks where life distracted me. It didn’t help things got off to a rocky start after spending last Saturday at the Colorado Writing Workshop hosted by Chuck Sambuchino. I’m not going to go into too much detail about my experience at the writing conference since I plan to dedicate another blog post to it. However, I will say it was great and I learned a lot!
It was also completely exhausting. The combination of nerves, focus, frantic note taking, and socializing did a number on me. I woke up on Sunday feeling like a zombie, and I carried that fatigue with me into the week. All I wanted to do was curl up on my couch, watch TV, and sleep.
Thankfully, I snapped out of my weary fog by Tuesday and got myself back on track…Well, mostly. You know, life. Stuff. Distractions.
Side note: I’ve discovered that whenever I create a deadline for myself, God decides to have a big laugh by throwing unexpected obstacles at me. It’s like He says, “Deadline, huh? Hmm, I wonder if I throw this, this, and this at you if you can still finish on time?…Yeah, that sounds like fun. Let’s see how you do–And go!”
Don’t worry, I didn’t eat my feelings or gorge upon ice cream all week…Just a lot of peanut M&M’s 😉
As far as my manuscript goes, I edited the first four chapters (hopefully five by the end of today). Yes, I know I need to pick up the pace if I want to make my January 1st deadline, but…Honestly, I’ve decided I’m not going to rush for the sake of making that deadline. I want things done right, and I want them done well. So, if that means I end up being a week or two late, then so be it.
I believe one of the main reasons I’m working a little slower is because after attending that writing conference on Saturday, I’ve become extra sensitive to certain aspects of storytelling. I find myself tweaking and revising things I hadn’t expected to tweak or revise, and I suddenly see issues I hadn’t seen before.
Oh, the joys of editing 😉
Anyway, that’s it for today. As I mentioned, I do plan on sharing specific details about my experience at the Colorado Writing Workshop later. I learned a lot from the great Chuck Sambuchino and I hope to tell you about some of them. So stay tuned for that!
In honor of my up and down week, filled with edits, exhaustion, and personal hoopla, here are today’s Friday Funnies. Enjoy!
How was your week? I’ve spoken to a few of you in private about your progress with NaNoWriMo, and I’m amazed how many have hit the 50K goal/will hit it by the end of the weekend. You’re crazy! And total rockstars!
But, really, whether you’ve hit the 50K goal, are on track to reach it, or are so far behind, you know it’s impossible to make the November 30th deadline, don’t stop! Keep writing. That’s the point of NaNo. Write, write, write!
Jen’s Weekly Roundup
In case you missed my posts from earlier this week, here you go!
Music Monday – Ghost – Ella Henderson
Why You Should Enter the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge 2015
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http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=439281&page=2
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/86751220.html?page=2
Jen's Pen Den 
The browsing history is a very bad thing to look at. Especially if the writer is also a blogger. Either way those naughty websites were not for entertainment purposes, I was reading the articles purely for research purposes. And Peanut M&Ms are fine to gorge upon. Peanuts are a source of protein. So perfectly acceptable and if they made a dark chocolate version, doctors would be recommending them. And don’t worry about my NaNo, I decided your character in it will not end up falling off the Eiffel Tower in the arms of a the Giant Panda after all. You’re good.
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HAHA! Giant panda…too funny.
That whole peanut M&M thing made me think of that funny quote: “Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree. That makes it a plant. Chocolate is salad!” Yep, that’s how I’m going to think of it 😉
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Yesterday I googled how a spaceship could get dirty… It was not helpful.
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M&M’s rock, but so do Peanut Butter cups!
I’m looking forward to reading your top 10 writing tips from the Colorado Writing Workshop. Once I read them I may do a post on the top 10 ways to eat a peanut M&M.
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Oh, peanut butter cups…yum! And I’d laugh my butt if you did a top 10 ways to eat a peanut M&M. Hilarious…and, oddly, intriguing, lol.
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It’s on my to do list now 🙂
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