November & NaNoWriMo Comes to a Close

Velib’ cycles and autumn leaves

23 November 2009, outside my window

It is a cool, damp autumn Parisian morning as I begin to type.

It’s the fourth week of November; in one week it will be November’s final day and I will come to account with the number of words I have written for this blog for NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. Twenty-two days ago, I decided that I would bend the rules a little for NaNo and not write a novel, per se, but write a kind of fictionalized memoir of my life in Paris. I decided, too, that I was not really writing a fiction of commission (an entirely made up narrative), but a fiction of omission (a true narrative, but one where I leave stuff out at will). Fifteen posts and 42,884 words later, I am here, at post 16 trying to think how in the heck I am going to organize all the thoughts which I have this morning, and also how to coherently describe some of the wonderful things that have happened in the past week!

In the previous post, I wrote a little about the weekend of November 14 & 15, but I had a little more that I wanted to say about Tess’ and my trip to the 17th and 8th arrondissements.

I think I shall begin there, and then see what happens.

Photo News, New Moon Review & Thé Mariage Frères

Mural in M° Abbesses

27 June 2009

I am getting another late start at posting here today.

Part of it is that PJ started work a little later today and wanted to work on his movie review of “Twilight: New Moon” before going off to work shortly after 10 AM.

Part of it is that I seem to have zero energy today.

Part of it was that I was having such a good time watching “Ugly Betty: Season 1” this morning while PJ was writing that I just did not feel motivated to get online and write after he left for work. I actually kind of fell back asleep watching the last couple of episodes of the season, so maybe I have needed some rest.

But I am here now, on Day 20 of NaNoWriMo. I have ten days left to pull about 9,000 words out and post them here. I actually would like to surpass that number by about 1-2,000 words since in some early posts, I quoted a lot of external material, but we’ll see what happens.  I just realized that means an average of 2,000 words per day, and I know I probably won’t be posting this weekend. Aack. That might be cutting it close.

Well, I am not going to panic, just write. So here I go.

Le Puits de Légumes & Ladurée

Hello!

After a bit of a dry spell on this blog as far as photos and locations/adventures in Paris, you will be pleased to read that I had a very long and busy weekend, and have photos to show for it.

Saturday, 17 October, my friend Tess and I went on another Saturday luncheon adventure. Tess, wanting to celebrate an early release from a prison of a temp job that had her waking up at 2:30 each morning to be at work by 4 am, and me, to celebrate a month, cig-free, met up at Métro Jussieu in the 5th arrondissement to once again eat lunch at Le Puits de Légumes.