FULLY EXPOSED: DAY TWO-- Day Two of FULLY EXPOSED. Tuesday– Fail. Not an epic one, but a failure which also contained at least moments of success. My goals were 2000 words and a 1.5 mile walk. First the wind conspired against me and I decided to put off the walk until afternoon. Instead, the morning was spent drinking copious amounts of coffee and dealing with the sorts of business activities that Kristi.Belcamino puts off until afternoon. A friend in MWA posted that there was a place in Norway looking for crime stories for an Easter tradition. Given that my readership is pretty much nil in Norway, I dug up FAMILY VALUES, the first short story I ever sold, and sent it on its merry way to Norway. If it’s accepted maybe I’ll gain a reader in Norway, if not, I just hope my zero audience doesn’t turn into a negative one. I also recruited a second writer for the blog hop thing I’ll be involved in next week. Designed to bring more traffic to the authors involved, this couldn’t have come at a better time and tagging Kristi was easy, the second author actually took me a couple of tries, but it got done. I figured I would still have all afternoon and evening to get my word count and my walk. Then my wife (the former English teacher), handed me to slips of paper. “What’s this?” I asked. “Tickets for the movie we’re going to in Iowa City tonight.” F-bomb. F-bomb in ALL CAPS with three of those pointy things after it. (Kristi’s readers might see this and they don’t yet know that I curse like a stevedore with Tourette’s who has just had his foot run over by a fork lift. Let’s keep that surprise for later, shall we?) I was the one who bought the tickets (a week ago) for the documentary NARCO CULTURA because I wanted to see it for research for a future book. Downside is, Iowa City is an hour each way, the movie is two hours, and an hour for dinner meant the evening was shot. F-bomb to the power of three. One synopsis did get done, first draft anyway. 1110 words written. Skipped the walk to get that many words. Grand total -890 words and -1.5 miles walked. Not a great beginning, but today is another day. Goal: 2000 words, 1.5 miles walked. Tomorrow, I promise, I’ll explain the synopsis thing...really. You can follow us at: matthewclemens/bring_out_your_dread kristibelcamino https://facebook/kristibelcaminowriter
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:26:56 +0000
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