Everyone in my acting class said this phrase constantly (as did Birdie occasionally) after seeing that Pinter play The Birthday Party.
But it also goes nicely with the work I did yesterday on Trouble and Ruin. My brain seemed to be connected to my body yesterday, so I got some words in on Kelsey battling Mower Guy, and closer outlining of the scenes following. I decided not to use the stuff I wrote last weekend. It was an interesting idea, but it just didn't fit.
[later]
Still getting back to bigger numbers every day. That's GOT to change. I have GOT TO put more words down every day if I'm ever going to get this sucker done. So far this afternoon only 350. Crap.
The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.
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Ah, Pinter -- he has an eye for the viciousness of the ordinary. Those little ticks that make us go boom.
Don't worry about word count: as long as you persist, you will get there. Not giving up is the most important thing. As you go along, it will go better at times, and worse at others, but if you stick with it, it will get to the end.
Then you get to revise!
I'm midway through chapter six after a couple of weeks where I was lucky to get a paragraph done in a day that I wasn't writing other things. But it's getting there...slowly, but surely.
I was going to ask about your book today! Yeah, I was worried you may have given up, cause I'm looking forward to the rest of it!
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