2 posts tagged “novel”

I'm A Quitter

I quit Weight Watchers yesterday.  I realized I was becoming obsessed with food and I was rebeling against the program, doing everything I shouldn't be doing.  I felt powerless and bad about myself.  Guilty for not going to weigh in.  Guilty for gaining at weigh in.  Guilty for not following the program to the letter.  I am constantly beating myself up about my inability to make this work for me.  I think WW is a great program that works, I'm just not mentally where I need to be in order to be successful with it.  I also think that while my leader is great, my group is enabling my food obsession.  I'm going to try to eat better and work harder on getting exercise into my life, instead of focusing on food.  Perhaps Overeaters Anonymous?  Perhaps some other diversion tactic.  Just no more paying $40 a month for another tool to use in berating myself.

The amazing thing is, I came home last night and made and ate dinner, and since then I haven't had one single snack.  Haven't even wanted one.  I generally snack a lot in the evening, so this is a step in the right direction. 

Novel in Progress

I'm writing.  And writing.  And writing.  I had an idea for a novel and started working on it in January and it was going no place, so I stopped.  Then a few days ago I had the idea that my two main characters needed a backstory, so I started writing it as a prologue, but it has taken on a life of its own.  My prologue is now two chapters, and I realized I just caught these characters at the end and the beginning is so beautiful and tragic and magical.  They wake me up at night, these people, with their arguments and their laughter.  I'm enjoying them so much and the writing just flows out of me.  I've never felt like this before about writing. 

Hi-ho, Hi ho...

Work is busy.  We've had 4 people resign in the last 10 days and it is really making life hard on those of us who continue to stick around.  Plus, one of the support staff has a (thankfully operable) cancerous tumor on her brain and so she'll be out for a while with surgery and recovery, etc.  We're being stressed to the limit.  I'm making a lot of sales right now which should cushion my sales goal for the year and give me time to help out where necessary.

Reading, too.

I've got a lot of magazines, plus two books I'm reading right now:

Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex by Schmuley Boteach.  It's been fascinating and I'm sure I will revisit this topic in a blog sometime soon.

Get Between the Covers: Leave a Legacy By Writing a Book by Neil Shulman and Eric Spencer.  I just bought this and I'm looking forward to getting started on it, but between my emerging novel and the book above, it's still sitting unopened.

That's it for the updates.  How's things by you?

What's on your "do before I die" list?
Submitted by Caroline.

 Go to Ireland.

Get a novel published.

Kiss Ricky Martin full on the mouth.

Not necessarily in that order.