yikes – i think the worst part is that i just typed “middle-age”. i was thinking “teenage” but honestly that’s been over for over a decade. and my last birthday was one of those ones where people start saying things like “well. this is it.” and rocking back on their heels….
so – on to the confession… unless some short answers on a statistical theory exam classify as “writing” then i am at the big ol’ NADA for the word count. yup. you heard me. i’ve written nothing. not one word. two days ago i wrote “coffee. contact lens solution. yogurt.” i’m pretty sure grocery lists don’t count. especially because i didn’t actually use the whole word…more like “blk gld. lens sol. yog.” you know? ooo – and today i wrote “general losses” several times while typing up comments for the auditors at work.
but you know what? i’m not worried. i crammed my head so full of knowledge that after my exam (on a friday night! the nerve!), i was so exhausted i just went home, lay on the couch and listened to my boyfriend and his mom chat. then we spent the next two days sightseeing around town and i think i might have knit something… not sure what… i was so completely brain dead i’m surprised i was able to wash my hair.
but now that’s over and i have one week off between courses – what better time to write than now! (ok, well, not NOW exactly because i brought my laptop home from the office and i need to work on a report to get some funding…) but just right as soon as i’m done that i’ll bang out at least a few hundred words tonight before bed. and every night… i think i need to manage my time a little better… i seem to be running out…
- JenC
Is this another challenge? I went to (another) writing workshop a few weeks ago and have been so good at my 3 pages a day. I’m so happy. And I’m even writing some good stuff. Next week- when the kids go back to school- I’m going to log a few of the chapters in to my laptop from my paper and pen. I’ve been nurturing this book and not writing it for years. But I want to complete a first draft before I re-enter the workforce. This is my chance.
I walked 100 miles. I can do anything.
I love this post. Your writing is a style that makes me want to read and read and read. So there! Look! You wrote more than a grocery list! And well!
I’m worried about your use of the term “middle age”. I resist anyone in their late 20s or 30s being middle aged. Isn’t 30 the new 20? So I say that makes me (freshly turned 45) middle aged and it makes you a new term altogether. Let me think….
pre-mid age?(my son turns 10 in a matter of days and is pumped about the term “pre-teen”) which could be shortened to premidi.
miffle aged?
Bursting with the juices of life age? (totally cumbersome)
I’ll think about it.
there is a definite lack of terminology for this one…. i figure middle age takes us from our 30’s right on through to about 94. at least….that’s what i’m banking on.
i like “bursting with the juices of life age”, cumbersome, but fantastic!