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Monday, May 10, 2004

Crawling along

I had plenty of time on the weekend to make decent writing progress, but I squandered it playing computer games for hours. I still wrote more than my quota, but not much more. Not nearly as much as I could have. I feel a bit guilty about it, but more because I am having difficulty moving the plot along and don't really want to do too much until I have some dim notion of where it's heading. Having definitely reached and passed the halfway mark by now (if this sucker comes in over 120,000 words there's no way it's going to be done by August), I'm getting wary of tangents.

Weekend

Happily engaged in relatively undemanding pursuits over the weekend, from a wander about the Civic shops accompanying Ian's winter clothes shopping, to an amiable Mother's day lunch with Fiona's relative yesterday. The highlight was probably rewatching Dirty Harry on TV last night, which in itself gives an impression of being better than it is, but is certainly better than its endless imitators. Also, Scary Movie 2 and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 are incompetent, dismal films that fail utterly to achieve their intended goals (gross-out/slapstick humour for one and suspense/supernatural horror for the other) and underwhelm at every turn. But my brain needed numbing, and there was no beer in the fridge, so there you are.

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	Monday, May 10, 2004 Crawling along I had plenty of time on the weekend to make decent writing progress, but I squandered it playing computer games for hours. I still wrote more than my quota, but not much more. Not nearly as much as I could have. I feel a bit guilty about it, but more because I am having difficulty moving the plot along and don't really want to do too much until I have some dim notion of where it's heading. Having definitely reached and passed the halfway mark by now (if this sucker comes in over 120,000 words there's no way it's going to be done by August), I'm getting wary of tangents. Weekend Happily engaged in relatively undemanding pursuits over the weekend, from a wander about the Civic shops accompanying Ian's winter clothes shopping, to an amiable Mother's day lunch with Fiona's relative yesterday. The highlight was probably rewatching Dirty Harry on TV last night, which in itself gives an impression of being better than it is, but is certainly better than its endless imitators. Also, Scary Movie 2 and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 are incompetent, dismal films that fail utterly to achieve their intended goals (gross-out/slapstick humour for one and suspense/supernatural horror for the other) and underwhelm at every turn. But my brain needed numbing, and there was no beer in the fridge, so there you are. 0 smartarse remarks Post a Comment 0 Comments:

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