Things We Learned This Week
1. It’s very hard to write while shopping.
2. It’s very hard to write while eating at iHop and Steak N Shake.
3. It’s very hard to write while watching DVDs and Project Runway.
4. It’s very hard to write while crocheting/knitting/quilting.
5. It’s very hard to write while laughing your ass off.
6. We shouldn’t laugh at Bob for e-mailing from the upstairs bedroom since at one point we were all in the same room using Campfire.
7. I have to put in that second bedroom upstairs. And an elevator.
8. The 472nd version of the opening is better.
9. Everybody needs a dachshund, preferably Milton.
10. Never say, “I’ll get up and take them out in a minute” when the oven timer dings for the cookies you’re baking.
11. This sucker is going to be rewritten and finished by the end of the next week since we won’t be together and will actually be able to get some work done.
12. We must do this again very soon.
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“Everybody needs a dachshund”
How very true!! I have slowly been convincing my friends of thet, one by one. I have several happy converts.
I’m glad you’ve had such a wonderful time - I just wish 137 lessons were enough to teach ME* #10.
Maybe two people could crochet/knit/quilt while one scribes? With STRICT alternation? None of that “when I finish this row” stuff!
Ooh - rewritten and finished by the end of next week! Very excited. Although that probably means nearly a year ’til we see it…
How terrific that y’all have been having such a great time. There’s nothing like getting together and enjoying good friends!
Looking forward to reading the book!!
And yes, everyone should have a dachshund, or maybe a Rat Terrier (like mine).
It sounds like y’all had a great time. When you put in the extra bedroom and the elevator, you might look at putting in a wireless network, too.
An extra bedroom and an elevator. Sigh.
I’ll have what she’s having.
I’m sitting in the middle of a snowstorm in Iowa and marveling at the Steak n Shakes I’ve driven by… will I regret going into one? Once we can actually go anywhere?
Start slow. Get the Double Steakburger with cheese and an order of fries with a Diet Coke and a chocolate shake.
Work up to the big time.
I’m another one who could have told you about number 10. Once you can smell the cookies, they’re 10 seconds from being overdone.
Good news about the opening. Any chance we can see the other 471 drafts? [big grin here]
In my need for more Project Runway, I’ve been on YouTube all weekend watching Project Catwalk (British version). Then I went to Elle.com and looked at runway shows. What’s wrong with me? It’s not like I’m fashionable.
I think I just enjoy looking at the creative efforts. Like art, everyone knows what they like.