Day Eight

[tahmthelame]

We're a little over a week in  - how's everyone holding up?  To be on track you'll need to hit 13,336 today.  If you're shooting to be done by Thanksgiving, the goal is 16,000.  How are your wordcounts holding up?

To help spur you on, here's a challenge: somewhere in your writing today, try to put three rhyming words in the same sentence.  For

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[davisac1]

I'll see your three words and raise you five--in a sentence that barely makes sense even within context!

The maid staid and prayed as she laid in the shade.

[tahmthelame]

"Come now, Mr. Thackett," the doctor continued. "We need to check on a few more things, and rest will help you feel your best for the tests."

So lame! And right in the middle of an emotional scene, haha.

[itsrichard]

He wrote commercials, and was accustomed to being bothered by odd requests Being a kind soul, he responded to his latest applicant's offer to bring in a celebrity pinch hitter. "Brace yourself for a blow: I said no, and that's so, you might as well go, and please tell Yoko Ono not to sing solo whilst playing polo with a bolo!"

Ok, bit of a runon, but it was fun. Nine.

[lov3killsslowly]

My story is so...just...unusual, I guess already that the last thing I need are rhyming words, even if it would add to the word count. But I'm doing good on word count anyway. I'm up to 17,326.