Here’s Your Sign
With NaNoWriMo in its second week, I’ve put enough time in front of my computer that I can’t begin to think of quitting now. I want to finish this, as I believed I’d made clear by the signs posted on my office door.
Genius at work, says one. Quiet, Novel In Progress says another.
The rest of my family aren’t big on reading, I guess, judging by the number of times they’ve walked up and hollered at me through the door. Just moments ago, in fact, my husband walked right in. I shot him a glance that would’ve rendered another man impotent. (He knows, however, I would not dare harm that particular part of his anatomy.)
“Oh, sorry,” he said.
“Damn straight.” I turned back to the computer and tried recalling the phrase I’d just been about to type, the one I’d spent three minutes digging through my mind to uncover, the one I desperately needed to transition from one scene to the next.
“Say, while I’m here,” he continued, “I thought I’d see if you’d be up for having friends over later.”
“Friends?”
“Yeah, you know, just a couple of people,” he said. “Maybe play some cards, throw some darts?”
“Later, though, right?”
“Yeah. Probably around 9 o’clock or so, once the boy’s in bed. I haven’t called anyone yet, but I thought maybe you could use the break.”
“If it’s that much later,” I said, “and if you haven’t called anyone, why are you interrupting me now?”
“Oh, well, that’s ’cause I didn’t want to forget.”
Gonna get me a new sign:
Warning: Do not interrupt for ANY reason or I’ll name a character after you and kill it off in a slow, painful and most embarassing way.
UPDATE: That goes for the cat, too.
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Wow, have I been there. But I was writing my dissertation, so the insertion of fictional doomed wife-shape characters was discouraged. But now that I’ve finished, a novel is not out of the question…
Guess there are advantages to me writing in the middle of the night. *grin* No one interrupts me. But really the only reason I do it is because I’m a nightowl - I had the hardest time writing last Saturday during the day - it was almost painful.
Maybe “Enter and Die” would make them think twice?
Is that a promise? I’d pay good money to have a character named Xrlq appear in the book and be killed off in a slow and painful way. The more stupid, annoying and downright retarded that character may be until he/she/it dies, the better.
Bidding starts at $1,000 U.S.