Sadly, tonight is NaDruWriNi, and I have to get up to go running in the morning. So sadly, my sole glass of Riesling with dinner tonight will have to suffice.
What I have been doing of late a lot is writing.
- Yes, I’m doing Nano again. It actually does get a little easier, even though the words haven’t been pouring forth prodigiously, because Sophia’s school is actively working against my having time in November. Nov. 1? Teacher in-service day, no school. Next Friday? Veteran’s Day, no school. The entire next week? Early dismissal. Then there’s Thanksgiving.
- I’m taking an online playwriting class at Foothill College. Why playwriting, you ask? Besides being inspired by the hilarity and awe-dropping talent of The Amateur Gourmet? I don’t know. Wanting to focus on the extreme basics of character and situation, instead of flashy writing or jump cuts. And I wanted to take some writing class after lo, these many years, just to get some of my writing in front of someone new and see what they had to say. What the teacher has said? Has been extremely gratifying. And I know she’s not saying it to everyone, because in an online class you get to read the teacher’s comments about everyone.
- I’m doing Lucy Huntzinger’s online short story group, Deathless Pose. No, that’s not a typo. I haven’t participated nearly enough, but thankfully I have a bye for the month of November, or my pointy little head would pop off my shoulders.
- And lastly, finishing up my novel so that perhaps at long last I will, you know, show it to someone. It exists. It really does. I promise.