Weekly Writing Intentions: October 8, 2022
Daily Diary, Day 767:
If you have been following my posts this week, you know that it was a difficult one for me because of my concern with and eventual sadness over the death of a close friend. I did manage to get started writing on the novel again yesterday, so that the week’s total was 2769.
When I was lamenting my lack of progress to a friend, she pointed out that I did do these posts every day, including a long Historical Tidbits post, so it wasn’t if I hadn’t been writing. A good reminder that these posts are an important failsafe for me. They keep me writing every day, even if not on the novel.
So, my intentions for this week are simple. Try to hit the 5000 words written goal.
This will require a fairly strong push over the next 3 days because Tuesday and Wednesday are chock-a-block (ok now I am going to have to look up where that term came from) with other things, and Thursday is always pretty busy.
(ps chock-a-block means jammed together, came from a nautical term, said of two blocks of tackle run so closely they touch.)
I also spent this morning arranging some short-term promotions for the last two weeks of October, and that is going to require some further work next week.
Otherwise, more walks and more Halloween decorations. Going to stick with the spider theme today. One reader reached out with a link, and I did some google searching myself, and as the comments have suggested, spiders are associated with haunted houses (which in turn does fit the holiday given that’s where ghosts hang out as well.) But evidently spiders were associated with witches (something they put in their potions?), which, in turn, are associated with Halloween. That, of course made me look into why witches were associated with Halloween, but I will talk about that when I get to my photos of witches, which will come next after I finish with the spiders.
As someone who grew up rereading Charlotte’s Web as a child, but then faithfully reread the Lord of the Rings Trilogy through my teens and twenties, I am ambivalent when it comes to real spiders. If they are small, they are Charlotte and I quite like having them around. If they are large, they become Shelob, the giant spider that Frodo confronts, and I want them gone! Needless to say, most of the spider decorations fit the Shelob type.