First day into the week of not eating out and writing creatively each night. I've set myself a goal of at least 500 words a day so that by the end of the week I'll have at least a 3500 word short story.
Today I woke up late but managed to pack my lunch with some homemade soup. When I arrived at work, I remembered that the new sales manager was starting today, so most of my morning ended up helping to prep him for coaching his team. I didn't mind the partnering, it allowed me time to get to know him a little. However, when the store manager asked me to take him to lunch for the day and he didn't want to visit our pathetic food court, there went my "no eating out" plan. I ate my sub sandwich thinking well, tack on another day, too late now.
After a long, somewhat stressful day at work, I came home rather crabby and overwhelmed. Not helping matters was my desk piled high with tossed about mail, shopping receipts, computer and camera cords and bags of cough drops and chocolates. My desk chair was mounded with sweaters I ran out of room for, stacks of leggings, dress pants, and work shirts I kept meaning to hang up. Then there was the floor around my desk! Bags of possible Christmas gifts, old lunches, shoes, and a beach towel that never made its last hoorah. Joe came home from the grocery store ready to start dinner. I sulkingly went to the kitchen and tossed a bell pepper and some zucchini on the counter which Joe offered to chop. I threw the chicken in the microwave to defrost and measured out 3 cups of rice. After barely talking and lumbering around the kitchen, I apologized to Joe and said "just give me 10 minutes to clean up my room," threw some curry chili sauce in a pan to boil and at least reorganized my purse so it wasn't overflowing with 1o lipglosses and 5 bottles of hand sanitizer.
So the night was saved. Joe and I ate a chicken curry dinner and while I picked up my room he ran a movie back to the store. Then we agreed to each spend an hour at our craft. I FINALLY finished my 500 words and it wasn't easy getting started after not writing for so long. Part of my story takes place in a cemetary. Here is my criteria for writing, based off of National Novel Writing Month's (or NaNoWriMo) website. I will write everyday at least 500 words, and after the day is over, may no longer go back and edit my previous work. NaNoWriMo isn't about writing great literature, it's about writing lots of literature! The goal is to get writers past the worries of starting something, revising it, torturing yourself over plot and fluidity. Instead, if you decide to change genres halfway through the tale, so be it, and I hear pirate sci-fi is a genre now. Hmmm...
I did find this video from NaNoWriMo's site uplifting.
http://www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/112ef5ee
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