Archive for January, 2006
Random Sunday
I wrote an entire post on You Again, hit “Publish Post” and lost all of it. It was a great post, too. Well, probably not that great. But I liked it. So here’s a Random Sunday. I’ll get back to you on You Again again later.
I’m playing the Spamalot cast recording. That was a good [...]
Mare 12: Well . . .
So it’s the last day of Mare and I wrote exactly 0 words. Must be a new world’s record. But we got the book plotted and I know what the last scene is (that’s HUGE in fiction) and we all had a wonderful time. And now I’m heading south to Doom Boy and image coaching, [...]
6 commentsMare 11: Argh
I got home last night and was so exhausted I answered e-mail and went straight to bed and forgot the twelve days of Mare.
You begin to see why Bob screams and Eileen had to go see Gabriel Byrne before she strangled me.
Mare 10: Mission Accomplished
And tomorrow we go home.
We worked on the book all day today while we drove and had lunch by the ocean and we’ve got the structure blocked out. So we can all go to our separate states now and work on our sister’s story. And we need to meet again to do the final draft, [...]
Mare 9: Nothing But Good Times
I’d love to write about everything that happened today but I’m so tired I’m falling over. In short:
Eileen and Krissie and I worked all morning.
Then Mollie came and we went back to La Ripaille the French bistro on Hudson Street where the food is incredible and where Eileen and Jen and I had [...]
Mare 8: Lots of Good Work
Well, we’ve been working our Triple Goddess butts off here and getting a lot done. We’ve worked out a starting structure, figured out a fantastic climax, had lunches with editors, and managed not to kill each other, although I think both Eileen and Krissie are tired of hearing, “When Bob and I do this . [...]
5 commentsMare 7: Eileen, Krissie, and Jenny, Together Again
Well, we’re all here in New York, and after a late dinner with Meg at the White Horse where Eileen humiliated everybody by asking what kinds of Chardonnay they had–just have a beer, Eileen–we came back and worked on the plot of the Miss Fortunes and laughed pretty damn hard. There was that moment when [...]
5 commentsMare 6: I Heart NYC
Well, I’m in New York and can I just say this is the greatest place on earth? Thank you.
Spent the day with my brilliant beautiful daughter, Mollie, because it’s her birthday, and we walked around and talked. And then we had omelets and talked. And then we walked and talked some more. And then [...]
Mare 5: Characters, Sharing Of, Part 2
At 3:30 AM I finally finish a really bad Agnes scene, but at least it’s finished, and then I read ahead to Bob’s next scene and he’s done the exact same things. And I turn to the e-mail computer to tell him it’s his fault so he knows when he wakes up in the morning, [...]
18 commentsMare 4: Characters, Sharing Of
I worked on Agnes all day today and I’m about to go back to her, but we’re doing something with Mare that’s really different from anything I’ve done before: Eileen wants character charts, lists of things so that we know each other’s characters better. I don’t do character charts when I write alone because I [...]
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