mmmm… every single item of clothing i am wearing is straight from the laundry basket. smelling all fresh and laundrified.
last night i tried to write a summary of my story. an informal synopsis. i had it all in my head, i was thinking it out, as if i were causually telling someone what it was about as i drove around town running errands. but when i tried to write it out, it didn’t come out well. which made me start to doubt my ability to even write the story. if i am just editorializing a casual synopsis, what am i going to do when i am trying to write the actual story?
well, i’m taking a break from it today, at least until this evening. i’m taking lola to the car wash, and then i am meeting my mom, pattie, at REI. she’s going to buy me a birthday present!! and it’s not even my birthday. yet. ok. it’s in a week. she wanted to buy me dressy clothes. but i told her… i don’t really need any dressy clothes. i do not have a dressy life, currently. and i do not have anything coming up. no dressy xmas party that i know of. no wedding, until hers, and that’s at the end of May. nothing. what i really need, is a new gortex jacket. a seattle staple. we bought mine when i first moved back… 15 and a half years ago. it still works. but it lacks warmth features and fits funny. so we are meeting at REI. she has a coupon. 20% off. everybody wins!!
wicked, a member of my nanowrimo writing group, suggested we write the jacket blurb to our stories. i think i am going to try that when i get back. not so sure how much i am going to outline. maybe a really really really skeletal one? i know, maybe i’ll write major plot points on index cards. and then i will take the index cards and arrange them on a tack board. just kidding. or maybe not. that’s sort of a good idea. hmmmm……