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Offbeat Bride the book
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on December 26, 2005
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On this, my "day off," I'm working through writing three chapters for the book. While stumbling across some old writing, I realized that for today my three favorite words are "full frontal freakout." I want to start a band so that I can name it that. I want to print a zine with that as a writing theme. I want to name the book that but somehow Full Frontal Freakout: One Untraditional Bride's Guide to Weird Weddings just doesn't quite work.
That said, I'm in no kind of full frontal freak-out right now. I've had the best day ever with myself, eating delicious vegetabley leftovers from my domestic dinner success on Friday, going for walks, drinking endless cups of Yerba Maté and cranking out chapters like my fingas are on fiyah!
ON FIYAH, MOFOS!
According to my geeky chapter map spreadsheet, I am 42.21% done with my book. That should be closer to 50% by the time I go to sleep tonight. Also: does the fact that I map my chapters on a spreadsheet make me some sort of cheat? Aren't writers supposed to be tortured artists with needles hanging out of their arms? I guess those are just novelists. Those of us who do non-fiction might get a different stereotype. May I submit for your consideration the overcaffeinated, slightly cooked geek as the new stereotype? Thank you.
About Ariel Meadow Stallings
Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.
Matt said
I'm in total panic – deadline is five days away. The book is finished (did all the captions on Xmas Eve night) but am still short 47 pictures after a source stiffed me, and I'm still way over spec – it should be 10K and I've edited it down from 24,000 to 18.5. Can't really spare the time to go back to work tomorrow, I should have taken the extra three days off!
Leslie Copeland said
My current favorite band name is "Manson's Grandson." I always feel sad that probably it will never get used in real life. I used to write stories about this band doing things though, like fighting aliens n stuff. That made me feel a little better.