Mmmmm - hmmmmm. The NPR song of the day today is awesome!
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings sing "100 Days, 100 Nights"
or you can go here to see more info. I'm lovin' it!
Working on a small portrait tonight and contemplating joining NaBloPoMo. I believe it could be done. A novel in a month and a blog post a day in the same month, along with Christmas shopping and Thanksgiving (at which time some of you might go with the Pilgrim food, but Dari and I find that Indian food is more fun, even if it is a bit difficult to find good recipes. Oftentimes we make them up.)
We shall see ... we shall see...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
NaNoRHYMo
Hmmmm.... would long spells of poetry (that did or did not rhyme) count fairly toward the word total for NaNoWriMo? Having someone constantly quote poetry would be a helpful diversion ... maybe it wouldn't even be NOTICED!
How about an author preface? Part of the 50,000 words, or not?
Really, I'm following the rules of THE BOOK and not doing much plotting and planning at all. So far, I think one of the most useful tricks to working fast may the five-click Google for information / research. If you've read the book you know what I mean. If you haven't, well, do. I'm also reading the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lammot, recommended by a close personal friend of dear Dari, and it's doing a lovely job of taking my mind off things.
Meanwhile, I've found my "theme song" -- "Apres Moi" by Regina Spektor just feels like the one. Actually, two of the most fascinating female children in the world went on so about Ms. Spektor that I bought the album "Begin to Hope." It took a bit of getting used to, that is, until I realized it is perhaps the world's most perfectly put together album. Now I'm doing my best to see if it is humanly possible to OD on music. So far I'm still standing -- of course, I haven't listened to the album without stopping for more than six (or was it seven?) times in a row...
By the way -- I've searched for "legal" music links -- you can go HERE for an NPR interview, along with music links at the bottom of the page. (Be sure to listen to Samson -- it becomes very singable once you know it.) Unfortunately, I can't find a "legal" link to "Apres Moi" -- I would suggest that you just grab your nearest teenage girl with a decent allowance and an iPod and see if she doesn't have it for you to listen to...
There is an animal or two in my mind for this book, too -- they always make things lively and are so much fun to anthropomorphize. One is, I believe, a poodle. (Being very visual this book is currently just a set of pictures in my head, but I'm pretty sure that's a poodle there on the lower left.) Another one is still undetermined -- I mean, his exact species is undetermined. After today, though, I may have to add this guy, or someone like him. (Thanks for the link, Dido dear -- we hope the rottweilers are still getting along with the llama.)
Best news of all -- I believe we have convinced the Magnificent Moon Maidens to join us in the NaNoWriMo experiment. This just gets better and better.
(note -- this post was 459 words, or about 27.5% of the number of words to write daily in order to make 50,000 in 30 days. I feel better about this...)
How about an author preface? Part of the 50,000 words, or not?
Really, I'm following the rules of THE BOOK and not doing much plotting and planning at all. So far, I think one of the most useful tricks to working fast may the five-click Google for information / research. If you've read the book you know what I mean. If you haven't, well, do. I'm also reading the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lammot, recommended by a close personal friend of dear Dari, and it's doing a lovely job of taking my mind off things.
Meanwhile, I've found my "theme song" -- "Apres Moi" by Regina Spektor just feels like the one. Actually, two of the most fascinating female children in the world went on so about Ms. Spektor that I bought the album "Begin to Hope." It took a bit of getting used to, that is, until I realized it is perhaps the world's most perfectly put together album. Now I'm doing my best to see if it is humanly possible to OD on music. So far I'm still standing -- of course, I haven't listened to the album without stopping for more than six (or was it seven?) times in a row...
By the way -- I've searched for "legal" music links -- you can go HERE for an NPR interview, along with music links at the bottom of the page. (Be sure to listen to Samson -- it becomes very singable once you know it.) Unfortunately, I can't find a "legal" link to "Apres Moi" -- I would suggest that you just grab your nearest teenage girl with a decent allowance and an iPod and see if she doesn't have it for you to listen to...
There is an animal or two in my mind for this book, too -- they always make things lively and are so much fun to anthropomorphize. One is, I believe, a poodle. (Being very visual this book is currently just a set of pictures in my head, but I'm pretty sure that's a poodle there on the lower left.) Another one is still undetermined -- I mean, his exact species is undetermined. After today, though, I may have to add this guy, or someone like him. (Thanks for the link, Dido dear -- we hope the rottweilers are still getting along with the llama.)
Best news of all -- I believe we have convinced the Magnificent Moon Maidens to join us in the NaNoWriMo experiment. This just gets better and better.
(note -- this post was 459 words, or about 27.5% of the number of words to write daily in order to make 50,000 in 30 days. I feel better about this...)
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Oh No WriMo
Rats. I'm beginning to fret about NaNoWriMo, although I'm trying to put it out of my mind. I've read THE BOOK (up to the point where you are supposed to QUIT reading the book and save it for week one ...) and know that I shouldn't be planning until the last week of October. Still, weird ideas won't stay quiet and problems keep scratching away at my subconscious, begging to be solved.
For example -- how would a dwarf ride a bicycle? I keep seeing it in my mind, but the logistics of it just don't work. Shall I put giant springs on his feet, and have him able to walk around on them, too (just for fun) ... or should I change it to a unicycle ... or both? These are major problems. I want to find a bicycle and sit in front of it in full lotus, meditating on how it could be ridden by a dwarf. (Unfortunately my own bicycle is no longer with us, having been traded by Dari and me some time ago for safe passage out of foreign parts. It was a great bike.)
I keep jotting phrases and thoughts down on post-it notes and in my little pocket reporter-style Moleskine. Sometimes, though, by the end of the day, I'm not sure what my own notes mean. Like, the other day I found a pink post-it note with the word "mimsy" scrawled on it with exclamation points. Exclamation points? It must have been important, but ....what was it ....???? Eek!!! The pink post it note went on the bathroom mirror, and three days later I remembered that I'd considered using it as a character's name.
Later that day I ran the idea by Dari:
Dari: "Oh, you mean like in the movie?"
Lila: "What movie?"
Dari: "The Last Mimzy."
Lila: "When did you see that? I never heard of it."
Dari: "When I was in the ... well, you know .... when I was away."
Lila: "Rats. That means the name is taken. It's been done. No good! I was thinking about the Jabberwocky poem, and that's where the word came from. Of course he was talking about borogoves and I'm talking about a person."
Dari: "Well, you can still use it."
Lila: "Nope. Somebody else got there first."
Today in the movie store I see that the title of the movie is The Last Mimzy -- spelled with a "Z" .... Mimsy spelled with an "S" may be back on the table.
You get the idea of how things are going for me these days. I stand in uffish thought. A lot.
For example -- how would a dwarf ride a bicycle? I keep seeing it in my mind, but the logistics of it just don't work. Shall I put giant springs on his feet, and have him able to walk around on them, too (just for fun) ... or should I change it to a unicycle ... or both? These are major problems. I want to find a bicycle and sit in front of it in full lotus, meditating on how it could be ridden by a dwarf. (Unfortunately my own bicycle is no longer with us, having been traded by Dari and me some time ago for safe passage out of foreign parts. It was a great bike.)
I keep jotting phrases and thoughts down on post-it notes and in my little pocket reporter-style Moleskine. Sometimes, though, by the end of the day, I'm not sure what my own notes mean. Like, the other day I found a pink post-it note with the word "mimsy" scrawled on it with exclamation points. Exclamation points? It must have been important, but ....what was it ....???? Eek!!! The pink post it note went on the bathroom mirror, and three days later I remembered that I'd considered using it as a character's name.
Later that day I ran the idea by Dari:
Dari: "Oh, you mean like in the movie?"
Lila: "What movie?"
Dari: "The Last Mimzy."
Lila: "When did you see that? I never heard of it."
Dari: "When I was in the ... well, you know .... when I was away."
Lila: "Rats. That means the name is taken. It's been done. No good! I was thinking about the Jabberwocky poem, and that's where the word came from. Of course he was talking about borogoves and I'm talking about a person."
Dari: "Well, you can still use it."
Lila: "Nope. Somebody else got there first."
Today in the movie store I see that the title of the movie is The Last Mimzy -- spelled with a "Z" .... Mimsy spelled with an "S" may be back on the table.
You get the idea of how things are going for me these days. I stand in uffish thought. A lot.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
NaNoWriMo
Where have we been, my lovely sister and I? We've been off to foreign parts and unusual states (of mind, that is...) and have returned ready to play.
The challenge has been offered and met. We will be doing NaNoWriMo this year. This will be our very first, so go easy on us! Two separate novels by two separate sisters whose paths might cross. I'll leave it up to you to decide if I mean the paths of the novels or the sisters.
And there's supposed to be a plot. A PLOT, I tell you! That little requirement involves organization, planning, and preparation. I believe I already mentioned organization, but I am compelled to mention it again, and this time with feeling -- ORGANIZATION.
Dari will likely shine at this. I am doomed, as I cannot get the picture of a dwarf carrying a parasol while riding a bicycle out of my head.
A plot? An outline? Really?
Doomed.
The challenge has been offered and met. We will be doing NaNoWriMo this year. This will be our very first, so go easy on us! Two separate novels by two separate sisters whose paths might cross. I'll leave it up to you to decide if I mean the paths of the novels or the sisters.
And there's supposed to be a plot. A PLOT, I tell you! That little requirement involves organization, planning, and preparation. I believe I already mentioned organization, but I am compelled to mention it again, and this time with feeling -- ORGANIZATION.
Dari will likely shine at this. I am doomed, as I cannot get the picture of a dwarf carrying a parasol while riding a bicycle out of my head.
A plot? An outline? Really?
Doomed.
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