WORDS!

[mylittleredgirl]

6281 ★ 25000 (25.12%)

I GOT THIS.

Okay, technically I have written 2 months out of a 13-month story, so maybe 25% is a little optimistic, and I have no clue what my next scene should even be, but THERE ARE WORDS NOW IN THE DOCUMENT, HOORAY.

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And the date... <3 to everyone. My dad was a block away 10 years ago, and we got lucky. When we finally got phones up long enough for me to learn he was alive, he told me to go back to studying, to give in as little as possible. He comes from Israel, where terrorism is a part of life in a way that's almost impossible for me to understand ("How do you just go to the grocery store every week knowing that you might get blown up?" "You need groceries, don't you?").

God bless all the first responders, and the families of those who couldn't make the same phone call my dad did, and everyone who has suffered so much in the last 10 years because of that day. I'm so grateful to be American - may we all be even a little bit as brave, selfless and remarkable in our lives as those men and women who ran into a crumbling building to save people they didn't even know. That's the story I want to tell my children - not that there are people out there who hate us and want to destroy us, but that there are people right next to us who might give everything to save our lives. <3 <3 <3

Comments

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 Yours is the best post I've seen on the subject today. Thank you.

Also: YAAAAY WORDS!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Aww, you're such a sweetheart. Thank you. <3

I NEED MORE WORDS. WHY ARE THEY SO HARD TO FIND??

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

I don't knoooow. They like to hide.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Also, my grand laundry plans have just been interrupted because the machines all either have other people's clothes molding in them or are FULL OF GRASS. That's a new one, by the way, but I'm kind of surprised it's never happened before. Apartment living, omg.

All of that is my way of saying that if I don't get more words, my night will not be productive! <3 <3 How are you doing, sweetiebug? Did you rawk at anything today? :)

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Oh no! :( Community laundry rooms are such a pain! Grass is a new one to me, too. I haven't seen that!

You must get more words!

<3 I'm good! I did chores today! It pleased me. :D I also bought a couple dresses. So yay!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

OMG HOORAY FOR YOU!!! :) I was just coming back on here to say that "depression rules apply! if you did nothing today you have to say 'I rocked at breathing' with lots of exclamation points!!!" but dude, you did WAY more than breathing!!!

I <3 you. I'm so glad you're on my flist. Have I told you that lately? What, flattery isn't going to get you to write my words for me? DAMMIT.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Ohh yes, breathing counts as a major victory some days~!

I <3 you tooo! And am likewise very very glad you're on my flist. <3 But nooo, I can't write your words for you! Your words are better, anyway! (Nice try, though! ;))

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

At least i get points for effort. I also think I just finagled a way to fit in some of the words I wrote in my previous draft that I so cruelly tossed aside earlier this month. SUDDENLY those words I didn't like are looking a lot better, LOL.

I think if I were ever to be a real writer I would need to hire someone to sit nearby and STARE at me to keep me from getting up and wandering away. My dog doesn't count, because she's good at staring, but not so good at not lying her head on the keyboard and demanding to be pet.

OKAY. I WILL BE BACK IN 720 MORE WORDS.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Yay for salvaging words! :D

Pets are very distracting, aren't they? My cats like to demand petting, too. It's like they don't understand that there's writing going on!

YOU CAN DO IT! *shakes pompoms*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

7K BABY! WOOT WOOT!!! Your pompoms totally worked! :-D

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

YAAAAY! GO YOU!!