There comes a time when you achieve the perfect balance between bowl number two of popcorn, glass number xxx of wine, and day three of the post-traumatic effects of Thanksgiving napalm.
I have just now arrived at this point. I do not tell you this for any other reason than to let you know that I NEED A FRICKIN' COOKIE! Somebody throw me a bone. I'm 14,000 words behind, I've alienated the vast majority of people who would have given me either a birthday (December 11) or Christmas (December 24 / 25) present. I have eaten more carbs in the last 25 days than I have in the last 25 months. I am late on my mortgage. I did not comb my hair today.
SOMEONE WRITE ME A NOTE AND TELL ME I'M A PRINCESS SUPERSTAR COWGIRL WHO GETS TO HAVE A PONY AND A HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE AND GO TO DISNEYLAND AND WEAR A TIARA IF I GET TO 50K
Thank you. I am going to go get another Lime Popsicle.
Your humble supplicant,
Propellergirl
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50,062 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 17 20
You rock, honey. Don't let anyone tell you any different.
50,512 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 17 26
Have a cookie if that's what you want. Have whatever you friggin want. You deserve it!
50,628 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 17 36
i believe in carbs and trans fat and everything they tell us to stay away from. and as someone wit a summer birthday who rarely spends the summer around people she actually knows, i can sympathize w/ the birthday thing. find a cute guy and force him to sing you happy birthday. it will feel really good.
not only do you rock, but you belong to an exclusive club of people who rock. this month is your ticket to incredibleness that few other people can ever hope to achieve.
go buy yourself something nice. you deserve it.
50,512 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 20 51
Oh carbs? I've lumped on about seven pounds since i started this fiasco. So I'll be huge - but I'll have written a novel, ta-dah!!
33,456 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 21 26
Go to the mall and get yourself a Tiara. Wear it when you write. It is magic, I swear. Writing will no longer be an effort. The tiara makes it all magical. I wear one myself and writing couldn't be easier. But, you have to have a little ceremony when you place the tiara atop your head. And, you MUST eat a cookie after the tiara goes on. Otherwise, it isn't magical. Go ahead. Try it. You've nothing to lose.
51,384 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 09 12
I left for the weekend and came back to magically find Girl Scout Cookies around the house, you can have some of those. Especially since my roommate had to go to the hospital this weekend with gall stones. We need to get them out of the house.
And don't worry, when you reach 50,000 words you can take all your friends and family out to a nice dinner and announce that you are out of your writing induced seclusion and still get all the lovely birthday and christmas presents! Maybe there will be a tiara in there!
I would suggest taking a break to pay your morgage, though. Having a place to write and sleep is kind of important.
----------Chibi Hentai-chan
The littlest pervert on the net!
Proving to everyone everwhere that size doesn't matter
54,246 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 10 17
Consider yourself tiara'ed!
And of course you can also have the pony in the hot air balloon, and the trip to Disneyland if you insist.
What *I* want when I win is for Alessio Boni [ever see THE BEST OF YOUTH?] and Goran Visnic [WELCOME TO SARAJEVO and then ER] to drop by to massage my neck, shoulders, and feet. While I sip my fine frothy champagne.
Ah, fantasies...Anyway, at least I've got the champagne chillin' in the fridge as we head into the final stretch :-)
Onward, and cheers!
50,095 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 12 48
A tiara it is......I am envisioning something gaudy and ornate, with an incredible amount of bling.
The pony is on its way.
I for one, am glad that my birthday is December 1st. Instead of celelbrating my entrance into my "late twenties" I plan on celebrating having written my first novel by the time I was 25 :) I am planning on rewarding this fabulous acheivement by getting a haircut and color and going to the bar and getting drunk. yay me.
that is of course, so long as I hit 50,000
51,384 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 13 27
The pony is on its way.
I for one, am glad that my birthday is December 1st. Instead of celelbrating my entrance into my "late twenties" I plan on celebrating having written my first novel by the time I was 25 :) I am planning on rewarding this fabulous acheivement by getting a haircut and color and going to the bar and getting drunk. yay me.
that is of course, so long as I hit 50,000
That sounds like an idea! I'm all for getting drunk December 1!
----------Chibi Hentai-chan
The littlest pervert on the net!
Proving to everyone everwhere that size doesn't matter
54,246 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 10 11
SOMEONE WRITE ME A NOTE AND TELL ME I'M A PRINCESS SUPERSTAR COWGIRL WHO GETS TO HAVE A PONY AND A HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE AND GO TO DISNEYLAND AND WEAR A TIARA IF I GET TO 50K
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CONGRATULATIONS! on crossing the 50K finish line....are you back from Disneyland yet? what did you name your pony?
Hope to see you over on the new chick-lit.net forum in the upcoming days, weeks, months... :-D
http://chick-lit.net/forum/index.php
DMac
Thanks to the friends 'n' family whose support makes my Night of Writing Dangerously possible! http://www.firstgiving.com/dmacsf