Snow at last in Toronto — all day. Lovely day to stay in and get caught up, which I planned to do but I got bogged down in a ditch (aka glitch) shopping onllne. Maddening also time-consuming. Afternoon tea with a friend by the fire—Channel 204 on TV, better than electric because it snaps, crackles and pops—calmed me down a bit. My Paper Desk looks better, if you don’t look at the floor around it: scattered piles of paper seemingly at random but destined for folders, files and follow-ups.
When?
Thanks to my two commenters with their helpful suggestions. Funny thing: I looked up my name on Amazon to see if there are any reviews yet—no, but most of my past books are listed all in a (vertical) row. I guess they were sniffing around after my new title popped up.
And that’s all I have to say about that. (For now.) My Paper Desk has yielded up a sheaf of paper scraps with words printed here and there among the noodges. I propose dealing with them, the words not the noodges.
push verb
1 she tried to push him away: shove, thrust, propel, impel; send, press, drive, plunge, stick, force, shoot, ram, bump, knock, strike, hit, jolt, butt, prod, poke, nudge, elbow, shoulder; bulldoze, sweep, jostle, bundle, hustle, hurry, rush, manhandle. ANTONYMS pull.
2 he tried to push his way into the flat: force (one's way), shove, thrust, squeeze, jostle, elbow, shoulder; thread, wind, work, inch.
3 he managed to push a silent panic button: press (down), push down, depress, exert pressure on, bear down on, hold down, squeeze; operate, activate, actuate.
4 don't push her to join in if she doesn't want to: urge, press, pressure, put pressure on, pressurize, force, drive, impel, coerce, nag; lean on, prevail on; dragoon into, steamroller into, browbeat into, use strong-arm tactics on; informal put the heat on, put the screws on, twist someone's arm, railroad into, bulldoze into.
5 the manufacturers of each fuel push their own products: advertise, publicize, promote, give publicity to, beat/bang the drum for, popularize; sell, market, merchandise; informal plug, give a plug to, hype, hype up, give a puff to, puff, puff up, boost, flog; N. Amer. informal ballyhoo, flack, huckster.
nudge |verb [ with obj. ]
prod (someone) gently with one's elbow in order to attract attention: people were nudging each other and pointing at me.
• touch or push (something) gently or gradually: the canoe nudged a bank of reeds.
• coax or gently encourage (someone) to do something: we have to nudge the politicians in the right direction.
• approach (an age, figure, or level) very closely: both men were nudging fifty I WAS GOING TO CHERRY-PICK A FEW WORDS, BUT IT’S LATE NOW.
See, this is how I squander time. I was trying to see how I came up with my verb to noodge, and I saved a lot of stuff on WORD, but then I went into the office to find a script someone wants to see, a very old one long past the timeline, and subsequent external hard drive….
…and I found myself digging into old scripts and notes and old/new discoveries, very time-consuming. Everything is.
I found a hard copy of the script and a large beat sheet, ready for the next draft.
It would be so much easier if I managed to sell everything. Then I wouldn’t have this backlog of unrequited dreams and paper.
i’ll do some words tomorrow. Where did the time go?