I'm at the library again, and it's closing in an hour. I think I can get some words, as I've finally reached the point in the Dead & Breakfast novel where Mason gets to use the words the ghost of Old Man Teklits gave him nearly two years before. I set that up with no idea how it was going to pay off, but like George Lucas, I'll tell people that I always had it planned out before I even started writing these.
If . . . and it's a big if, I manage to pull it off, it should be a pretty powerful moment, although I originally thought the conversation would be in person, and now it's turning out to be over the phone, and I'm enough of a screenwriter to realize that'll work much less well. We'll see if I can make it work.
Oh, another thing: my brother-in-law was watching a football game this afternoon, and a Geico commercial came on that said the name of the Lara and the Witch story I wrote in the fall. It's the "Fencing Problem" ad, where a bearded dude and his chillingly attractive wife complain about their neighbors' fencing . . . and then said neighbors enter the frame with foils and fencing gear on.
It's really, really dumb, but it ended with the voiceover guy saying "Bundling Made Easy," which is what I titled the story where Lara falls in love with a basketball player named Scott, who I never gave a last name to.* It made me laugh, even though it's a gross pun, but made me feel inspired, as far as my story title goes. I hope somebody out there likes the narrative as much as I like what I named it.
Okay, I started the scene, and got 185 words into before I started surfing the internet. The dang library is about to do it's "Please take your purchases to the registers and thanks for shopping at Toys R Us" message.
Sit-ups Today: 100
Sit-ups In January: 1003
Push-ups Today: 60 (I think today I was supposed to do my big set)
Push-ups In January: 743
Words Today: 933 (I had intended to get to a thousand, but I have reached the tipping point--the climax, if you will--and I'll to give some thought to what happens next)
Words In January: 5030
*Over and over in the story, it's written as Scott ____, because I enjoy giving full names in my stories, but was too weak to give him a full name. Any suggestions?
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