Yes, I am doing nanowrimo. Every morning I want to drop out. Every evening I want to start.
The book I am writing is about a woman who finds herself in the process of losing weight healthily in her 40s/early 50s (after years of battling anorexia--an ongoing battle for me, as when I gain a pound, I go into immediate thoughts of three-hour exercise sessions and starvation, even though I don't give in to them anymore). She's trying to find different ways to exercise, and happens upon a bellydance class. Nothing at all like real life for me. Yes, there's a love interest, as so happens. Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. Girl meets bellydance. Heck, maybe even the guy will take bellydance lessons. The bellydancer is a bit straight-laced and teaches English at a local state university (no, not all ALL based on my real life, even though she will famously struggle with the PowerPoint projector, just like me), but has a best-friend-since-elementary school who works as a salesclerk at a rather interesting store (based on Camouflage in Santa Cruz).
Yes, it's all silly pink marshmallow fluff, but I need something to just write. My creative life has felt so impaired since my sister and mother passed away that I feel a writing marathon in November will help to at least work again.
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Hi,
Saw that you were going to do the writing marathon in November. My daughter who is 13 and I are going to do this too...but we are not real writers...just wanta-bees.
I liked reading your thoughts on a fluff piece that you want to do. I am thinking of incorporating a quilt piece and my writing. Because I don't see my self having enough words in my head, or being wired that way, I thought that I would take my "book" and use it for the research for the story that I wanted to put on my quilt.
I am interested in folk-lore and fables and this is the direction that I want to go.
I haven't really blogged or talked about these ideas much to anyone...other than daughter...but in reading your post it made me want to kinda flesh out my own ideas and tell you about them.
You can see the quilt that I am talking about called Dug Outs on my blog.
http://quiltarchitect.blogspot.com/2009/10/dug-outs.html
There is another picture on the blog since this one that shows some improvement...plus a book that I just finished making about Joan Miro's art. It is a study of his art. I may try to use these type inspired images to make up the fabled or folk-lore characters.
I seem kinda wordy for someone that doesn't think she has any words in her head.
I am sorry that you lost your sister and mother. My father past away last November so I think this could be a challenging time for me...especially since we didn't really part in the best of terms.
I am seeing how my pain is my Vein of Gold or at least keeps me looking deeper into the Vein. I have been reading book by the same title by the author Julia Cameron.
Keep writing.
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