Quarantine Project Day 27
Day 27 was a teaching day and the whole day and evening was taken up with reading students' manuscripts and preparing my comments on their work, so no progress on the novel. I did have a little debate with myself about whether I could exclude teaching days from the Quarantine Project in the same way as I exclude week-ends. But then I quickly reminded myself - and with words of sharp reproach, dear reader - about how quite a few people reading this are trying to complete a novel at the same time as holding down a full-time or part-time job. So it hardly seemed fair.
Fair? Who says it has to be fair? Whose Quarantine Project is this? Don't I get to make up the rules?
Well, there are no rules, only word-counts. And since I don't get home until late evening after teaching, I didn't have the trunk to do any writing.
BUT, while I was on the motorway driving home and exercising low-level road-rage at a middle-lane hogger, an appealing two-word title for the novel did ping into my head. And, under Quarantine Project Rule 44 section C paragraph (ii)Exceptions To Titles delivered by Backbrain activity & not hitherto committed by pen, typographical machine, word-processing-device or other engine of inscription or lettering, I'm claiming it. And no-one is going to stop me.
Day 27 then: 2 words.
(For yesterday's blog in the Quarantine Project click on "achives")
