The plate is empty...

[alexpgp]

Today's word count turned out to be more along the lines of 3,200 target words, which cleaned the plate right off and left only a bunch of invoicing to do before leaving for New York tomorrow.

Ideas kept floating around in my head, even while Galina and I traveled up toward Natalie's neck of the woods to pick up the Ford and I drove it home. I am so struck with the USMC story that I find it impossible to think of anything else, except that from time to time, I wonder if the subject might not be somewhat too... I don't know... marginal? uninteresting? Dare I say, "Old Corps"?

(And as I write that, there bobs into the foreground the notion that, mayhaps, one might write it in a way that might make it interesting?)

I'm still leaning toward a bye but, quoting Fats Waller, "One never knows, do one?"

Tonight: packing. Tomorrow, up at oh-dark-thirty.

Cheers...

Comments

[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

I like the corps story a lot. I don't really know how I feel about the whole Idol situation. There seems to be a general misconception that being miserable makes you interesting instead of simply miserable that I am having a hard time getting over. I'm tempted to take a bye, but it would defeat the purpose of why I signed on, which was to force myself to figure out how to write about a topic, even if I wasn't so keen on it.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

My own two cents on the subject, which reflect my personal approach, are: (a) interesting writing is always in demand, and (b) byes should be taken for logistical reasons only.

Last season I was determined not to take my bye unless I absolutely had to, reasoning - as you do, I think - that the point of the contest was to write (or more precisely, to keep at it until a usable product was obtained).

Gotta run, planes don't wait. :)

Cheers...