an old Valentine

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Not surprisingly, I'm finding that the last half of my NaNoWriMo novel is a lot rougher than the first half. I'm basically rewriting it, only referring to my old version for some of the ideas I want to keep.

I'm still torn about whether I want to do the NaNoWriMo thing this coming November. It was a worthwhile experience once, but whether I do it again will depend heavily on how my writing goes between now and then.

I've purposely slowed down my search for new magazine articles for the next short while so I can focus on finishing my novel.

Today's Blatherpic

(from the Jeff Birthday Scrapbook)

About twelve years ago, before Jeff and I got married, I sent a Valentine letter to a CITY-TV Breakfast Television Valentine contest without telling Jeff.

And I won. Jeff is not a morning person, nor is he the type to seek out media attention, so you can imagine his reaction when I said one morning, "Um, hon? Guess what? I won the Breakfast Television Valentine's Contest and they want us to be at the tv station tomorrow morning at 6:30 a.m." I remember saying it as a very fast run-on sentence so he couldn't interrupt me.

But he was a good sport and agreed (partly because I was excited about the prize, which was a limo ride and a nice dinner and a night at the Chestnut Park Hotel in a fancy suite). Ann Rohmer was the host back then, and as the two of us sat on chairs on camera, she read aloud the poem I had sent in, and then showed everyone the picture I had drawn of Jeff (see the picture at the top of the page). This was also the first time Jeff had seen the entry.

We were both very nervous on camera but it was fun. The limo never did show up when it was supposed to, but we did get a free dinner and night in the fancy suite.

And Jeff made me promise not to enter any more Valentine's Day contests. :-)

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