Nano Update, day 11
Nov. 11th, 2005 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI talked to two friends about my novel and about friendship. I still think I need to change the direction of my story and add some character development. Robin thinks I can keep the dog. I still have some brainstorming to do on what kind of character development needs to happen. I got enough ideas to write a bit more today, though not enough to bring me up to 1667 words.
Today I wrote 1276 words in just over two hours (not counting all the non-writing hours). Some of today's writing feels embarrassing to read; some I enjoy reading. I may not need a decade of therapy to continue working on this thing after all. Here's an excerpt:
Today I wrote 1276 words in just over two hours (not counting all the non-writing hours). Some of today's writing feels embarrassing to read; some I enjoy reading. I may not need a decade of therapy to continue working on this thing after all. Here's an excerpt:
"What are some of your favorite Christmas traditions?"
"I think my favorite was one place that had two Christmas trees: one in the living room and one in the kid's playroom. The living room one was elegant, gorgeous, and just a delight to look at. White twinkling lights with white, champaign, gold, and red ornaments looked fantastic against the dark green of the pine needles. Looking at that tree, while sipping something warm and listening to nice music was close to nirvana.
"The one in the kid's room was decorated exclusively by kids. They were allowed to do anything they could agree on within the bounds of reasonable safety. They had every color of everything. They had homemade ornaments of tin foil-and-cardboard, colored salt dough, and glue-and-construction-paper. I saw origami, macrame, paper snowflakes. They strung popcorn. They also strung anything else they could pull a thread through: fruit loops, jewelry, CDs, you name it.
"You could tell that some particularly intricate negotiations were needed for the tree topper. A teddy bear was sitting on top, hugging an angel and wearing a star on its head.
"The best part was the stories. You could point to something and one of the kids would explain the whole history of that object and why it was on the tree.
"I remember Darth Maul was on the tree, hanging upside down, by one foot, because he was a bad boy. But they let him be on the tree because maybe if he saw Santa Claus he would be good.
"That was the best Christmas tree I've ever seen."