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Not Horrendous |
2005-11-03� �� 4:58 p.m. |
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The other night when I talked with Benito about my first chapter coming along nicely, he asked for my opinion on my writing�s crappiness. (No, he�s not being rude. He just knows that you can�t write a masterpiece in the sort of time NaNoWriMo allows.)
My reply: It�s not horrendous. If there�s ever been a dustcover quote more lovely, I don�t know what it is. My book about an adulterous wife is simply �not horrendous�. I�ve changed my mind about letting others read, as this story is going nowhere at a rate that is quite embarrassing. However, here�s a quick snippet from the first chapter:
In frigid November you would assume that all taxi stands would be overly crowded and ready to take a jilted (and now tipsy) wife home for another sexless evening. But that was not the case at the Grand Pomba Hotel. Without a taxi in sight, I turned to walk north, knowing that I�d eventually hit a taxi with its vacancy sign lit and would at least shave a couple dollars off my bill by walking in the right direction toward home. After paying Joey�s quite-generous tip on two glasses of woody alcoholic goodness with my own cash, saving myself a couple dollars would be a nice bonus. So there. I have to change for kickboxing, so I�m outta here. I�ll go ahead and make a joke that I�m saving all of my writing for the novel. �
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