The last time I blogged was on Day 9, when I wrote not a word for National Novel Writing Month and was feeling down about the entire endeavor. Even with Cindy’s excellent reminder that it’s a simple 2-step process (1. Put butt in chair, 2. Type something — anything), the next few days were a struggle and by Day 12 I’d fallen behind schedule by nearly 5,000 words. Luckily on Day 13 I flew to Southern California with my husband for a biz trip. I was in the middle seat and since Step 1 was mandatory for 4 hours, I had no choice but to implement Step 2. I blew past the daily quota of 1,666 words and stopped at 2,500 words.
Day 14 was even better. Brian’s conference was at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel. While he was stuck inside at meetings, I walked on the beach before settling in for a marathon writing session outside on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean (I wanted to include a photo here but the site won’t let me grab it). I did the same thing the next morning (in fact, my sunglasses were right where I left them on a bench, thank goodness). Ah, if only I could stay at the Ritz in Laguna for the entire month of November!
The last couple of days I’ve been in San Diego and Palm Springs. Also lovely destinations, but since family and friends are involved the productivity has been up and down. This morning, however, it was way up — hooray! I must confess, this was largely due to the fact that my husband was up at 4 a.m. to catch a flight back to the ‘burgh. I forced myself to get up and see him off so I’d stay awake and write.
Word count to date: 28,158 (2,000 words behind schedule).
Dilemma of my day here in the desert paradise: Go with the chicken-avocado sandwich or the turkey-bacon-avocado salad for lunch? I went with the sandwich, but then had diner’s remorse.
Hooray for your NaNoWriMo work! That’s amazing.
Tough choice on the sandwich versus salad dilemma. I would have tried making a chicken-bacon-avocado sandwich, and then would have had too-full-stomach remorse.