{"id":1219,"date":"2015-11-10T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2015-11-10T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T10:22:55","slug":"nanowrimo-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/nanowrimo-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo – Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting Word Count:\u00a020491<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hands\"<\/a>Back to work and back to a limited number of words being written. \u00a0After this weekend’s marathon writing session, I’m not that upset about last night’s minimal achievement\u00a0and, besides, I’m still on target to finish this year.<\/p>\n

I’m going to forego my normal blog\u00a0on writing today to write about partners of writers. \u00a0Not “writing partners,” but wives, husbands, significant others, best friends, supporters–whatever.<\/p>\n

My wife is a wonderful and practical person. \u00a0Brilliant, funny and incredibly sweet, but I never really thought she got my writing obsession. \u00a0Last week, she asked me for my holiday and birthday list (my birthday is at the end of December. \u00a0Bottles of Jack Daniels are always welcome–FYI). One of the items I put on my list–more as a joke than anything else was, and I quote:<\/p>\n

“A Place to Write.”<\/p>\n

Now, we live in Boston which is a damn expensive city. \u00a0We have a lovely home, but it’s a small cape cod style. \u00a0Two bedrooms, about 1100 square feet of living space. \u00a0It’s cozy and comfortable and we love it.<\/p>\n

But there isn’t a lot of room for my kids, who come visit quite often, or other guests who visit from time to time–My wife’s dad stays with us every summer, for example. \u00a0There certainly isn’t enough room\u00a0for me to have a regular, quiet place to just write. \u00a0My point is, when I put on my list “a place to write,” I was being a bit facetious.<\/p>\n

Writers are weird people. \u00a0We wander around most of the day in a world very different from normal people. We live our character’s emotions, we talk to ourselves and we throw keyboards around when we’ve written ourselves into corners.<\/p>\n

Well, that last bit might just be me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, my wife knows I struggle to get “into the zone” in our cozy, but very busy house–we also foster and house many cats. \u00a0Animal rescue is my wife’s passion.<\/p>\n

Today, I got home and my wife pulled me into the basement. \u00a0Half bemused, half hoping for an interesting sexual experience, I followed. She then walked me through the design for my new library and writing space that she and a contractor had discussed\u00a0today.<\/p>\n

“It won’t be ready by your birthday, but it should be done by February,” <\/em>she concluded.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Um….what?” <\/em>I asked her, wittily.<\/p>\n

“Your library. \u00a0Your writing space.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I was kidding….” <\/em>I started, still amazed.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I know. \u00a0I’m building it for you anyway. You deal with my cat obsession, I can do this for you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"THIS.<\/a>
THIS. This was the look on my face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I guess she gets me after all. I’m a pretty lucky guy. To my writing friends, go thank your partner today. \u00a0To the partners of my writing friends, Thank you for understanding our weirdness.<\/p>\n

And to my wife: \u00a0I adore you. \u00a0Always have.<\/p>\n

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