Frolicks on a Friday

Anyone with Friday the 13th superstitions? Did you know that the fear of a Friday the 13th has a name? Yup, it's called paraskevidekatriaphobia. Say that three times, period. Anyway, I love Friday the 13th. Which is funny, because it is a lovestory that makes me love Friday the 13th so much. My great grandmother and great grandfather were married against their families' wishes on a Friday the 13th. They have been the only couple in my family's history to remain married until he died of lung cancer.

And who could forget Freaky Friday, with the original teen-age brat, Jodie Foster.

I found this headline on my computer yesterday: Facebook status provides alibi. LOL Right, because you can't update your status from virtually anywhere in the world.....

Is Nano starting to get to anyone? I've seen a few desparities and all I have to say to that, Don't Despair! This will not make or break your career. This does not stamp you as a writer. It's an experience. Enjoy the experience, learn from it, love it. Love. :)

How embarrassing! But, this is what Nano has done for my cleaning priority. Uhm..and this is just the living room!

And along the same lines of this picture....
"The biggest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be." ~Walter Bagehot

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Keep writing, Keep smiling-people will eventually realize it's not an insane twitch.

Nano progress: 20,364

TGIF?!

Here it is, Friday and it's my last day to work with minimum interruptions. Two of my kids are in school, so during the week, keeping track of just the infant isn't too much trauma. Notice I say...not too much.

Today, I'm really struggling. I've written a full six words on my novel and can't seem to get any further. I'm questioning the plot, the characters, the scenes. I figured it was because I didn't have my delicious coffee this morning with cinnamon vanilla cream; so off I went, traversing through curves and drizzling rain to get to the grocery store. I came home and got right down to the business of fixing myself a cup of coffee to get back to writing.

I sat down in front of my screen-document already pulled up, to cut out the temptation of internet distractions-and sipped my coffee and stared, and thought and stared. Still nothing. I'm really feeling under the gun now! Soon, I have to go and pick up my two beautiful girls, start homework, dinner, chores and all the fun stuff that happens in the evening time for us mommies. Not only that, it's FRIDAY!! MY LAST DAY!! Tomorrow will be crafts, chores, bday parties and movies. The game of LIFE, or Disney SCENE IT, or......you get the idea.

I realized-through the foggy panic in my brain-that Friday doesn't symbolize "OH YAY" for me today. I felt awful that I had only written one sentence, and it's not anything of literary genius, believe me! Finally, after a second cup of coffee, I remembered all the advice that seems consistent from every angle-WRITE EVERYDAY!

Write something, well, maybe not a grocery list...but journal, try a poem (I am horrible with poetry!!) start a new story (I have to watch myself with this one, I have approximately 12 WIP's!) And so here I am, writing in a blog without the worries of plot, characters, believability, dialogue and punctuation. It's a wonderful freedom, these blogs. I also realized through this blog, that I reached my goal of posting three times this week. I have the same goal for next week. Certainly I can do that!

This realization was just enough of a positive to make my day seem more like a TGIF, than an OCIF (O crap it's friday). I think I just might have the next sentence for my novel in progress....

What do you do when you just can't get going? Do you write beyond that stumpy sentence? Or do you switch gears? Feel free to share in the comments section!!