Sun 16 Nov, 2008
Saved By the Bell – Except the Bell Didn’t Ring
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You know, I have a lot of things keeping me busy these days. It’s easy to get overwhelmed a bit. Plus I have my damaged memory, which is always good for a moment of blissful ignorance (or three). So, usually, I use whatever I can to remind me of things that I need to do. I write tasks down; I have Google Calendar email me notifications; and then—my favorite—I set an alarm on my cell phone.
I’ve had one set for 10:30 pm lately, to make sure I don’t forget to post a blog every day. It’s National Blog Posting Month, after all–post one blog a day. I’ve made it halfway—I’d really hate to fail now.
But my memory is not to be trusted.
It’s been a full day, wrapped up by delving into the edits for Rosewood. I was off in another world. If a friend hadn’t called me and mentioned the word “blog,” I would have blown right past midnight without realizing it—I reset my phone alarm last night, so it wouldn’t go off during a movie. So instead of an alarm, I got a ring. Saved by the bell.
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So. What’s new?
* I’m editing the final chapters of The Rosewood House, in which there is a way cool climax. I just summed up 4,000 words of backstory in four sentences. Ugh. But, on the plus side, this particular character is finally coming into his own. He’s had quite a tumultuous journey, which touched on both sides of the law. Which side did he finally wind up staying with? You’ll have to read it to see.
Someone suggested I release the backstory as a prequel. Hmm…maybe….
* My NaNoWriMo story, Aftermath, is on hold till later this month, since Rosewood gets precedence now. I’m not so sure I’ll still have 50,000 words as my goal for November—possibly 25,000. But, we will see.
And even though there’s more news, I will save it for another day. 11:49pm…time to post.
See you tomorrow. 
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Joel Longie says:
Since we recently just finished Halloween I thought I would mention the original meaning the phrase “Saved by the bell”.
“England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be…saved by the bell or was considered a …dead ringer.”
I know, pretty creepy, but this was what I was thinking when you mentioned the phase.
mousewords says:
Holy cats, I read that at 3am. I don’t think I’ll ever sleep again.
CJ says:
ZOMBIES!!! I am surprised that I remember half the things I need to do! LOL alarms and calendars a good thing.
mousewords says:
Lol!