Friday 5
1. We've reached the halfway point of Grapemo 2013. YAY US! Please remember to send in your progress reports by Sunday night for positing on Monday.
2. I'm reading MR. MURDER by Dean Koontz in my "spare time"--scary as hell! Scary enough that I seriously had to put it down more than once. THAT. SCARY.
3. I also just finished SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK as I like to read the novel before I see the film. I was pretty disappointed in the book, both from the perspective of a psych nurse and that of a reader who did not need the thousands and thousands of repetitive, boring, whogivesacrap football references that take up over half the book. Apologies to the author, but if it hadn't been on my Nook I would've thrown it across the room. However, I understand the movie is fabulous.
4. My wip and I are not seeing eye-to-eye. We have had a love-hate relationship for about 3 years now. I've realized the pages I'm revising need more rewriting than actual revising, and it's thrown me into a tizzy because even though I know where I want the story to go, I'm not exactly certain how to get it to that point. My MC is not not cooperating. After 3 years she's set in her ways and now I'm about ready to fire up the blow torch. Note: Quite truthfully, part of the problem is the project I have waiting in the wings, like the hunky old boyfriend who suddenly turns up after you've already committed yourself to someone else. It's very distracting.
5. Beth and I are still plugging through the miniseries WINDS OF WAR, aka How Stupid Characters Screw Up Awesome Stories. Briney and Natalie finally tied the knot in Lisbon of all places, and now Briney (who punched out the German ambassador to Portugal for referring to Natalie as Briney's "Jew wife") is off on a submarine somewhere and Natalie's headed back to Italy (again!) to try to get her stoooopid uncle safely out of the country. At this point I'd leave his ass there. I mean, dude, seriously! Of course after Briney and Nat's long tearful farewell, and their promise to see each other in two month's time, you know damn well something's going to happen to Natalie. Sadly, I'm guessing a pair of striped pajamas. In the meantime Briney's mom is fooling around with Peter Graves, while his dad is tempted to fool around with some blond English WAF chick who looks to be about his own daughter's age (so far just a few sloppy kisses between them.) Looking forward to reading the book once I get through all the DVDs...
2. I'm reading MR. MURDER by Dean Koontz in my "spare time"--scary as hell! Scary enough that I seriously had to put it down more than once. THAT. SCARY.
3. I also just finished SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK as I like to read the novel before I see the film. I was pretty disappointed in the book, both from the perspective of a psych nurse and that of a reader who did not need the thousands and thousands of repetitive, boring, whogivesacrap football references that take up over half the book. Apologies to the author, but if it hadn't been on my Nook I would've thrown it across the room. However, I understand the movie is fabulous.
4. My wip and I are not seeing eye-to-eye. We have had a love-hate relationship for about 3 years now. I've realized the pages I'm revising need more rewriting than actual revising, and it's thrown me into a tizzy because even though I know where I want the story to go, I'm not exactly certain how to get it to that point. My MC is not not cooperating. After 3 years she's set in her ways and now I'm about ready to fire up the blow torch. Note: Quite truthfully, part of the problem is the project I have waiting in the wings, like the hunky old boyfriend who suddenly turns up after you've already committed yourself to someone else. It's very distracting.
5. Beth and I are still plugging through the miniseries WINDS OF WAR, aka How Stupid Characters Screw Up Awesome Stories. Briney and Natalie finally tied the knot in Lisbon of all places, and now Briney (who punched out the German ambassador to Portugal for referring to Natalie as Briney's "Jew wife") is off on a submarine somewhere and Natalie's headed back to Italy (again!) to try to get her stoooopid uncle safely out of the country. At this point I'd leave his ass there. I mean, dude, seriously! Of course after Briney and Nat's long tearful farewell, and their promise to see each other in two month's time, you know damn well something's going to happen to Natalie. Sadly, I'm guessing a pair of striped pajamas. In the meantime Briney's mom is fooling around with Peter Graves, while his dad is tempted to fool around with some blond English WAF chick who looks to be about his own daughter's age (so far just a few sloppy kisses between them.) Looking forward to reading the book once I get through all the DVDs...