Reward System

Sunday, February 17, 2008 by Eden Stone

My weekend was long and painful--spent most of Saturday and all of today parked on the world's most uncomfortable bleachers to cheer my girls on at their swim conference. I love watching them swim and see them slowly shave off seconds from their events, but those bleachers are sheer hell--especially when you're squeezed in on them for 8 hours at a time. Sigh.

My point, and I did have one, was that I didn't get much writing done this weekend, but thanks to my reward system I was able to write the last 1300 words to finish chapter three of Be With Me last night. My reward was bed time, because after the noise and the seemingly now permanent ache between my shoulder blades, I'd have bribed the Devil himself to find oblivion for five straight hours.

The biggie, though, is that CHAPTER THREE IS DONE!! Yes, I know it's only the third chapter, but that's 9000 words so far, and if I can get chapter four done, it's the farthest I've gotten in this story in a year and countless different restarts and re-imaginings of it. I really love these characters, and I cannot wait to really get into the heart of their story. I finally found the theme of it-- They have to learn how to believe in not only each other, but in the person the other sees in them, as well. If they can't, they will never make it through, there's just too much for them to survive without the other. They scare me, their issues are huge and overwhelming, but Emma and Mica are magic when they're together.

Okay, need sleep.

~Eden

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Dancing Liberties

Friday, February 15, 2008 by Eden Stone

So. I'm on my way to Wal-Mart after a stop at my big sis's book store, when I come to the intersection of Central and Willowcreek, and saw two people (I say people because it was impossible to tell if they were men or women) dressed up as the Statue of Liberty. That was nothing new, as they've been there for the last couple of weeks, advertising a tax preperation shop. What was new, and which had me, Tink and the Maddog gaping, was what they weren't just standing and waving today--no, by the time I came up to the stop light in front of them, they were in the middle of a full blown dance war.

A dance war.

I'm not sure how many accidents they almost caused, but I do know that I was so dumbfounded as I watched them, that the guy behind me had to lay on the horn to get me moving. I'd had a headache all day, and had been in a general grumpy mood, but watching them definitely perked me up. It's just something you don't see every day, and for that, I was impressed.

Anyway, so no writing has gotten accomplished today. I'm on a new reward system-- write for 45 minutes, reward myself with something I want to do for 30 minutes, then start the process over. I did nearly 2000 words in less than an hour and a half of writing time yesterday, but I'm stuck for the moment.

Oh, well. There's always hope for tonight, but for right now, I'm off to take the girls to go see Spiderwick at the IMAX.

Later.

Eden

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First Blog

Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Eden Stone





Don't have much time today, told Tink I would make it to her Valentine's party at school. Thought I should get my first post up, at least.

Anyway, welcome to Here With Me. In case you haven't noticed, it's the title of one of my novels--my NaNo success from last year. Right now, I'm working on Be With Me, but it's slow going. Sometimes I think I know Emma and Mica, my heroine and her hero, better than I know myself, but it doesn't make writing them any easier. They kill me, but once I hit my stride with their story, I think they're going to turn out to be magic.

Here's to hoping, anyway.

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