I just spent about 20 minutes looking for a picture to put up here. I am having major problems finding what I am looking for, so might have to forgo a pic for today. Not a bad writing day, sort of wrote bits here and there all day. I am hitting the daily quota- just- not really going above and beyond, unlike some of you overachievers.
I was inspired by Jackie's blog yesterday, and had the perfect place to fit in one of her characters, so here is my excerpt for today- it is a scene from the past, from before Sean died.
"Maggie had no idea she was going to fall in love when she went to Club Abstract to see Tim’s friend’s band. All she was really interested in doing was celebrating the end of her exams. She had written the last of her exams earlier that day, a particularly brutal one, in a third year English course entitled Introduction to Semiotics. She blamed the difficulty of the exam on the asshole from her class who had spent the entire semester being confrontational toward the professor, apparently convinced of her own superior intellect, which she appeared to have honed in a thorough and close reading of the novel The DaVinci Code. Anyone who has been to university has had to endure one of these assholes in every class. There is something about undergraduate Liberal Arts studies that really brings out the assholes, but even amongst a sea of assholes, Lily Stronach was something else."
I am unavailable to write on the Sunday after the stag and doe, but could possibly write with some other Esmondes if anyone is available to write before? I realize we will all be busy, but we have to write, right? Next week Matt and I will be camping- in a motorhome, with WiFi, so I will still be in full contact.
Every year, I seem to stumble across a method for bolstering word count, completely accidentally and unintentionally. This year has proven to be no different. I keep copying and pasting lyrics of songs into the novel- I know this has been done before, by all of us, but I am actually kind of incorporating the music into the plot- this means that I will have lots of opportunity to pilfer the superior writing talents of lyricists throughout the month of July.
Well. That's it for today. Talk to you all soon :)
I was very happy to see Lily make an appearance, but loved the line about the thorough and close reading of the Davinci Code. That is a new kind of asshole altogether. I'm all for collective writing wherever possible next weekend.
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ReplyDeleteI like the ode to the college asshole that you have inserted beautifully into your novel. I really, really, really hate people like that. And almost invariably, they don't know what they're talking about.
Since I loved Lily so much in Jackie's novel (she's completely a remake of Gordon the Vampyre from her freshman effort) I'm more than thrilled to see her reappear here. Well done!
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