Waimea Bay, North Shore on a much calmer day; the waves get huge!
I’m proud to announce to the world that I am behind schedule in just about everything today. True, I scrubbed the bathroom sinks and I made tacos for dinner last night (yum) and I made it to the grocery store to buy food for our weekend company, but I still have not unpacked from Hawaii, have not read the memoir book of the week, am behind by 800 words on my writing from Thursday, owe my CPA my Quickbooks file from 2009 for W2 reporting, lost the back cover to my Kindle, looked at the new Pottery Barn catalog instead of watching the news last night, and we still have Christmas lights up.
1. I’m supposed to write 2500 words/day. Every day. I’ve done it for all of 2010 except for yesterday because I helped a writer friend polish a novel query that she sent to the first in her list of dream agents. So exciting! I even let myself write on whatever story I want each day. Whatever I’ve been thinking about. I’ve only got about four massive stories going at once. As long as my 2500 words are done each day, I don’t care.
2. My writing mentor’s book comes out in a month. Yesterday we learned she was an Booksense Indie pick for February and received a wonderful Publishers Weekly review. Plus her Letter to the Editor was published by the New York Times in the print and web editions. Her book can be pre-ordered from here.
3. Watching the documentary Churchill’s Bodyguard from Netflix and completely captivated. Wow. I think I’m the last WWII history buff to see this documentary (4 discs) but I highly recommend it. One guy kept Churchill alive for 18 years and I think he probably single-handedly saved the Western world as we know it. Can you imagine WWII without Churchill?
And because I’m so behind schedule, only three things today instead of five. I have to go finish my 2500 words today. Perhaps later I’ll think of two more things to add to this post.
Happy weekend!
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I’ll join you in being behind in, well, everything.
Heidi, thanks. Now if I can just get the roast in and not FORGET IT’S IN THE OVEN, I’ll be doing great.
Here’s to being not quite all there yet.
I’m so behind that it’s Monday and I’m just now catching up on your Friday post.
I own and love a tattered paperback called “Assignment: Churchill” written by a bodyguard named Walter Henry Thompson. Thompson wrote the book in 1955, and I picked it up at a yard sale about ten years ago. Now I’m curious. Is this the same bodyguard as the guy in the documentary? The book is fabulous. Very detailed and often funny.
And kudos to you for your consistent writing habits, Trish, and to your mentor for getting such good press!
Meg,
That’s him! This is a documentary based on his book and on more that was declassified after Churchill and he passed away. He is comical! He and Churchill had quite a relationship: so many assassination attempts before, during, and after WWII. Great documentary series. I was thinking I wanted to find W.H. Thompson’s book and read it, just to get more.
I am going to go look it up!
Thanks, Meg!
I thought it would have to be the same bodyguard! You’ll love the book. I hope you’ll be able to find it online.
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