(31) Days of Summer

Hello fellow writers! I'm going to try to wrap up my novel by Saturday. I am still having fun with it, but I'm starting to get tired. It's a lot trying to work, so I'll try to finish while I still feel good. I had a really hard/fast run today, and then very shortly after sat down for my writing session. Unsurprisingly, I went on to write an excerpt that is mostly a description of how bad running feels. I've shared only the funny parts of my writing session. No one needs to read about how bad running feels. We don't need to be reminded.  To: lenamatthews@bankofnovascotia.org CC: Ad Hoc Wifi Contemplation and Coordination Committee Members From: addisonbarger@bankofnovascotia.org Date: July 15, 2025 Time: 011:33:28 Re: Doodle Poll for Follow-Up Meeting for Ad Hoc Wifi Contemplation and Coordination Committee Good morning! Looking forward to seeing you all at our lunch run today. I’m told by Chuck that it’s going to be a real corker. (Don’t tell Jackie I said ‘real...

I had about 25min during my lunch break to write today, and it was bonkers. Clacked out 1200 words without spell checking and moved on with my day. Thank goodness for Cosmo providing some awesome flirting ideas to help me move the romance part of my plot along. Here is an excerpt outlining part of the Ad Hoc Committee for Contemplation and Coordination of Wifi. “We need to figure out a way to re-package the status quo so that it appears there has been a change, but no change has actually happened. In short, we need to find a way to appease the huddled masses without doing anything at all to change the Wifi situation,” Bam Bam says. “Let’s all take a few moments of quiet contemplation.” As we sit ostensibly ‘contemplating’ the wifi, I am actually contemplating how to execute the awesome flirting technique I read about in that old Cosmo last night. It was a rather complex maneuver involving an accidental ‘fall’ into my crush’s chest and saying ‘Damn, your pecs are so hard, I felt like I ...

I had another fun day of writing today. Sharing a few excerpts because I couldn't pick just one, and didn't want to share all 2000 words I wrote today. I have less than 10,000 words to go for my planned word count, and I have a rough outline of at least how the plot points can come together to wrap this novella up. I am really enjoying much writing a much shorter novel this year. And the addition of AI generated images, including the one below of Aki Berg. And the pylon he should have been replaced by. I see Jake at a table and sidle up to him. I see that he is taking heaping spoonfuls from the bowel labeled ‘classic jello salad’ and putting them on his plate. It looks, and smells, like vomit. “Hey, Jake,” I say cheerfully, trying not to let disgust creep into my voice. “Oh, hey…” he says, looking perplexed. “It’s Lena,” I tell him. “We ran together the other day?” “Right. Of course. Lena. I can’t believe how much of this jello salad is left. Score! I made it myself. It’s my fa...