Will Dramaturg for Food

November 12, 2008

Words written on 11/10: 1,331
Words written yesterday: 1,521
Total words written: 20,102

Favorite sentence written yesterday: "Sure, she’d have a nice Kosher wine on the High Holy Days (Arlene was one of the few people her daughters knew who actually liked the taste of Manischevitz), but other than that, her main source of alcohol was Robitussin."

I'm a bit behind on my daily word count (goal is 1,667 a day), but I'm a whole day ahead of myself on total word count (goal for today is 20,004, and I reached 20,102 yesterday). I think I'm doing pretty well! I am worried that I'm working too quickly toward the end, so I'm describing things in great detail to up my word count, and make the world of my novel more tangible. I wrote over 300 words about a liquor cabinet yesterday, and got some great insight into the world my characters live in! (People's reaction to liquor says a lot about them, I think...)

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My Fill in the Gaps 100 List

1. Accidental Tourist, The- Anne Tyler

2. Age of Innocence, The - Edith Wharton

3. American Wife- Curtis Sittenfeld

4. Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman

5. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

6. Atonement – Ian McEwan

7. Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The– Junot Diaz

8. Brothers Karamazov, The - Fyodor Dostoevsky

9. Butterfly and the Diving Bell, The- Jean-Dominique Bauby

10. Candide- Voltaire

11. Catch-22- Joseph Heller

12. Cheri & The End of Cheri- Colette

13. Clockwork Orange, A – Anthony Burgess

14. Color Purple, The – Alice Walker

15. Confederacy of Dunces, A - John Kennedy Toole

16. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

17. Daniel Deronda- George Eliot

18. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

19. Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol

20. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

21. Dombey & Son- Charles Dickens

22. Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes

23. East of Eden- John Steinbeck

24. Ender’s Game- Orson Scott Card

25. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

26. Farewell to Arms, A – Ernest Hemingway

27. Gift, The - Vladimir Nabokov

28. Golden Compass—Philip Pullman

29. Golden Notebook, The – Doris Lessing

30. Grapes of Wrath, The – John Steinbeck

31. Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift

32. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

33. Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle

34. House of Mirth, The- Edith Wharton

35. House of Spirits, The- Isabel Allende

36. ~~House on Mango Street, The - Sandra Cisneros~~ (8/05/09)

37. Human Stain, The- Philip Roth

38. Hunchback of Notre Dame, The – Victor Hugo

39. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

40. I, Robot- Isaac Asimov

41. Iliad, The – Homer

42. Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer

43. Invisible Man, The - H.G. Wells

44. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

45. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell – Susanna Clarke

46. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

47. Jude the Obscure- Thomas Hardy

48. Kite Runner, The – Khalad Hosseini

49. Lady Chatterley’s Lover- D.H. Lawrence

50. Last King of Scotland, The – Giles Foden

51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52. Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel

53. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

54. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

55. Member of the Wedding, The- Carson McCullers

56. Moby Dick- Herman Melville

57. Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe

58. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

59. My Antonia- Willa Cather

60. My Life in France— Julia Child

61. Namesake, The - Jhumpa Lahiri

62. Odyssey, The- Homer

63. Once and Future King, The – T.H. White

64. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

65. Orlando- Virginia Woolf

66. Paradise- Toni Morrison

67. ~~Passage to India, A - E.M. Forster~~ (9/05/09)

68. Persuasion- Jane Austen

69. Portable Dorothy Parker, The - Dorothy Parker

70. Portrait of a Lady, The – Henry James

71. Possession- A.S. Byatt

72. Reader, The- Bernhard Schlink

73. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

74. Remains of the Day, The – Kazuo Ishiguro

75. Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates

76. Room with a View, A - E.M. Forster

77. Screwtape Letters, The— C.S. Lewis

78. Secret Life of Bees, The – Sue Monk Kidd

79. Shipping News, The- E. Annie Proulx

80. Sister Carrie- Theodore Dreiser

81. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut

82. Sophie’s Choice- William Styron

83. Sound and the Fury, The – William Faulkner

84. Tender is the Night— F. Scott Fitzgerald

85. Time Machine, The - H.G. Wells

86. Time Traveller’s Wife, The- Audrey Niffenberger

87. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

88. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson

89. Tristram Shandy- Laurence Sterne

90. Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller

91. Ulysses- James Joyce

92. Unbearable Lightness of Being, The - Kundera

93. Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe

94. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

95. Waiting- Ha Jin

96. Way We Live Now, The- Anthony Trollope

97. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

98. Wonder Boys- Michael Chabon

99. World According to Garp, The – John Irving

100. ~~Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The – Michael Chabon~~ (8/19/09)