Fast Fiction

So, as I posted in the Los Angeles Forum I went out to Pasadena to write out with other wrimos at Zeli’s which is located inside Vroman’s bookstore on Colorado Blvd. I got there a little after two and realized immediately that this was the worst possible place to write. The coffee house was cute enough, with some sort of revival gothic theme with pointed arches and iron light fixtures. And wrought iron furniture.

The tables were low or high, small or huge. But as far as I could tell, there was no way to match a level surface to a comfortable chair in order to type. So, I pulled a small side table up to a little couch that had a cushion on it of the same level as the table and I set up my laptop and just hunched over it and typed. I got about 1,000 words in before the first wrimo showed up. Overall, the day netted 4,505 words. I’m still behind where I should be at this date, but I know that I will be able to write one evening this week (I didn’t last week) and I’ll catch up.

I ordered:
1 medium non-fat latte
then later I took a break from 4:00 to 4:15 and ordered:
1 medium gen mai cha (loose leaf - yummy)
1 slice of pumpkin cheesecake

time…..tally….words…words/minute
2:30…..07,386…..355…..23.67
2:45…..07,656…..270…..18.00
3:00…..07,992…..336…..22.40
3:15…..08,464…..472…..31.47
3:30…..08,675…..211…..14.07
3:45…..09,057…..382…..25.47
4:00…..09,057…..000…..00.00
4:15…..09,458…..401…..26.73
4:30…..09,946…..488…..32.53
4:45…..10,267…..321…..21.40
5:00…..10,569…..302…..20.13
5:15…..11,247…..678…..45.20
5:30…..11,536…..289…..19.27

It’s a great bookstore, and the coffee house would be great to hang out in under other circumstances, but for a novelling location, I found it a little off. But who am I to argue with 4.5K?