Wednesday, July 9, 2008

K a Day- 5 Pages

The 5 pages for the botany story, unfortunately, isn't working. I'm going to try to make up for it while at work, for these days I messed up, but I'm going to start doing between K a Day (so 1000 words a day) TO five pages, with five pages as the goal per day (but not the minimum). I think I'll post a little something from the book:

“Okay,” I said, “Now that that’s settled, I should get back to my wife.” I began to pick up some bags.

“You aren’t going to brush your teeth?” she asked.

“I’m terribly prepared for this kidnapping,” I said. I turned around to tell her good night as I opened the door, but she had already fallen asleep, on top of all the covers her mother had warned her about. Her mother had probably warned her about people like me, too. But I think if her mother knew how I quietly watched over her young daughter tonight, small thing breathing softly into stained sheets, and if she knew that I saw this girl as my daughter too, as another responsibility and as a beautiful addition to this world, I do not think that she would see me as she had expected to. I think she would be happy that, although unceremoniously, her daughter and I had become acquainted.

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