Progress Report 3/8/07

Lemuria By the Bay

Words: 3278 (3-day total)

Thank God an editor will never see this: Serious word rep issue with "life." I'm banning it from the next 2 chapters.

*wordloff* (aka, words the universe will conspire to make me cut): "Mom, hold him!" I demand. I thrust him forward; the umbilical chord is warm and wet against my forearm. "It wasn't him, mom. I couldn't do that. Even Daddy couldn't do that. He's just normal." I'm desperate to make her understand. She needs to love this baby.

random thoughtedness: Writing YA is a very very cool excerise. And also kind of neat. I get to telegraph emotions more, tell instead of show. The thing is, I find myself struggling to make the protag notmature. The voice is completely different. Clari has this self-centered-teen-in-training-to-become-someone--really-cool thing going on, and it's one of the most difficult things I've ever written.

5,322 / 85,000 (6.3%)

I've finally figured it out...

Toesnuggle
Originally uploaded by raecarson.

I've got it! What kitties are saying when they cry and cry and cry for no apparent reason.

They're saying, "Meeeeee! Meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"

That's right, felines worship at the altar of Self. Silly, fuzzy, little egotists.