Obnoxious Gal

Daydreaming about the writing life

Archive for November, 2009

Post on Tuesday When My Teeth Feel Like It

Monday, November 30th, 2009

There should have been an article on Friday, but with the Thanksgiving weekend, I didn’t feel like writing on a bloated stomach. On top of that, I had to get up early for Black Friday. No, I didn’t shop. I participated as an unwilling retail lackey.
Sales were actually not as fantastic as my boss thought [...]

A Dire Portent?

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

With the holidays right around the corner, all retail stores are preparing for the onslaught of rampant consumerism, even with the poor economy. The bookstore is really getting into it. The owner has come up with Holidays on the Harbor, filled with holiday cheer, carolers, and enough pine-scented candles to create sinus problems that’ll last [...]

I Coulda Been a Pretender

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Only ten days until the NaNo ends. And it looks like I’m going to lose this one, too.
It isn’t that I’ve lost interest in my project(s). It’s just that I kept restarting it/them and wanting to spend time with it/them.
I also decided that this was going to be a middle-grade chapter book, which usually run [...]

So Much for Making Up for Lost Time

Monday, November 16th, 2009

So I said that I was going to make up for not posting a few times. Obviously, that never happened. Do I have more excuses? Of course I do! Wanna hear ‘em?
We had a helluva nor’easter on Wednesday and Thursday. Surprisingly, the power never went out, but I was reluctant to work on the computer [...]

NaNoWriMo ‘09: Third Time’s a Charm?

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

For those of you who haven’t scoured the Internet for writing activities, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) might seem like an overly ambitious undertaking. And you’d be absolutely right: the task is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, from November 1st to the 30th.
I’d thought about participating this year, then came [...]