Today I'm having a lazy day. Yesterday was a long day and even though the evening did not involve work, it involved being away from home until 1:30 AM(my friend and I had planned on watching 1 of the final 3 episodes of the season of Mad Men, but then ended up having to watch all three of them, just to see how it was going to end), hence the getting home late.
I did go visit Julia for about an hour this afternoon and I did go to the grocery store, but otherwise I have been at home relishing my laziness. I did do some writing and made it to the 25,000 mark (25,006, to be exact), but the words were not flowing. They were just sort of sprawling slowly on the page lazily. I am quite surprised that I did make it over the mountain though. I did have to force myself to get to work as yesterday I didn't form even one word (not even a blog entry--so much for NaBloPoMo) on a computer screen. Now that I did make it over the top of the hill, I'm looking down at the abyss and I'm thinking that there is still a lot of space to cover with words. I don't think I mentioned here that I was at work the other day and had an A-ha moment (sorry Oprah, I don't think that, despite all your money and your lawsuit and all, that you can lay claim to that phrase. It has been around much longer than you have). My A-ha moment had to do with the fact that I realized that I did not really have an antagonist in my story. I did think that one of my minor characters could easily fit that role and I was all excited about having this new aspect to my story--that it would breath new life into its pages. Unfortunately, the writing that I've done dealing with my antagonist and all of her antagonism has been really really bad. Oh well, nobody is going to read this in its current state anyway...
I was also too lazy this afternoon for drawing, but I did force myself to do the above sketch. Yes, I know it's another pachyderm, but that is all I could muster. I'm afraid the sketch does look like a sketch that one forces oneself to do on a lazy, rainy day when one doesn't feel like doing anything.
Now I have to go out and actually do something and tomorrow it is back to work. I will have to wait until tomorrow night or Sunday to engage in more laziness.
2 comments:
I'm having a lazy day also. Verrryyy tired today. I think we are coming down from all the stress of worrying about the diagnosis. Glad you got to visit with Julia.
lazy days are good days. I heart them and glad you could enjoy one. I also heart the pachyderm and am happy to see any posted pachyderms anytime.
As for antagonist, well, who needs 'em? They just antagonize people and who needs that?
I am with you on failing to keep up with the rigorous demands of NaBloWriMo. I have missed a few days now but will try to do better the rest of the Mo.
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