October 9, 2006
Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4
Quote: "Day and night I am haunted by one thought: I must write, I must write, I must. ...I have scarcely finished one novel when, for some reason, I have to write another, then a third, and after that a fourth. ...I write incessantly, at a furious rate, I can't work any other way. What is brilliant and beautiful about that, I ask you? Oh, what a preposterous life! Here I am talking to you, I'm excited, yet not for a moment do I forget that my unfinished novel is waiting for me. I see that cloud, it looks like a grand piano. I think: must remember to put into a story somewhere that a cloud floats by looking like a grand piano. There's a scent of heliotrope. I quickly make a mental note: cloying smell, widow's color, use when describing a summer evening. I catch up every word and phrase we utter, and lock them in my literary storeroom – they may be useful." – Trigorin, The Sea Gull by Chekov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)
Good things that happened today:
1. First meeting of Dickens reading group! Yay for tea and AWESOME gingersnaps and Dickens and Linda's OMGFREAKINGADORABLE new kitten!
2. Got a chunk of work done at the public service center.
3. Have done almost everything I wanted to do today (sans only one and a half things!).
4. Started reading On the Road and am quite enjoying it.
Reading: Kerouac On the Road
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4
Quote: "Day and night I am haunted by one thought: I must write, I must write, I must. ...I have scarcely finished one novel when, for some reason, I have to write another, then a third, and after that a fourth. ...I write incessantly, at a furious rate, I can't work any other way. What is brilliant and beautiful about that, I ask you? Oh, what a preposterous life! Here I am talking to you, I'm excited, yet not for a moment do I forget that my unfinished novel is waiting for me. I see that cloud, it looks like a grand piano. I think: must remember to put into a story somewhere that a cloud floats by looking like a grand piano. There's a scent of heliotrope. I quickly make a mental note: cloying smell, widow's color, use when describing a summer evening. I catch up every word and phrase we utter, and lock them in my literary storeroom – they may be useful." – Trigorin, The Sea Gull by Chekov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)
Good things that happened today:
1. First meeting of Dickens reading group! Yay for tea and AWESOME gingersnaps and Dickens and Linda's OMGFREAKINGADORABLE new kitten!
2. Got a chunk of work done at the public service center.
3. Have done almost everything I wanted to do today (sans only one and a half things!).
4. Started reading On the Road and am quite enjoying it.
posted by fleurdiabolique | 10:58 PM
2 Comments:
KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, dear.
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