Hey wow, I've had this thing for just over a year now. Kinda pathetic considering how few entries I have...
OK, just a quick observation, but Bush supporters drive like shit! I don't know if I subconsciously excuse more for Kerry supporters, since I know we share some of the same goals and ideals, but I do know that every time lately that some asshole who cuts me off, tailgates when I'm already speeding, or goes 15 miles below the speed limit, and they have a political sticker on their vehicle (usually an SUV, since you need one of those around here), it is invariably pro-Bush. I think the worst are those stupid oval "W" stickers. How pathetic is it that the man supposedly running our country [into the ground] has nothing more notable to recomend him than a letter?
OK, so the novel is coming along well. Except that for some reason, the damn thing has decided that it wants a break, and no amount of coffee, cajoling, or threatened violence will convince it otherwise. Stubborn POS. Oh well, on the plus side, this is giving me inspiration to go downstairs and practice my gung fu. Poor punching bag... Oh well, that's its job, and unlike the novel, the heavy bag can't go on strike.
OK, so after a brief rest period to catch up on a bit of the sleep I've missed (3 days off the recover 10 days worth of sleep is brief), I'm back to writing. And back to bitching that I need another hour in the day. Especially this month when I'm trying to write at least one novel start to finish, but I have three concepts arguing over which story I should write. Given that I'm already over halfway done with the story I chose, the rest of them can politely go fuck off until I'm done with it. Then (if they aren't too mad at me for making them wait) I will write the other 2, hopefully at about the same speed as I'm getting Transitions done, but with a little less... chaos? loss of sanity? binging on coffee until I could puke? Eh, at least everything's somewhat settled. Now all I have to do is get this unco-operative novel back on track. The damn thing keeps offering me new ideas for twists and turns that would involve significantly changing or outright rewriting of most of the chapters I've got done. Not to mention that the storyline is starting to look like it wants to become a series, or at least have a second novel. Fabulous, now I get to decide what's in which book. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Forget 25th hour, how about a 30th hour in each day?
Wow, and I thought I was caffeinated before. I was sitting on AOL reading my emails and drinking a cappuccino while I waited for my coffee to brew, and I made the mistake of trying to add up all the coffee and coffee drinks I've consumed while writing this month. Suffice it to say that my blood could probably supply Starbucks with at least a week's worth of coffee (if they could separate out the plasma and other junk, of course). On the plus side, I'm doing really well with my writing. I'm at nearly 19K words, and once I finish up here and work on the novel tonight, I should pass the 20K mark- 2/5 of the way done! Yay me! This is quite possibly the most I have ever written of a single story, and definitely the fastest.
I really need to thank Nick for talking me into NaNo, cuz this is the most fun I've ever had with writing, plus it's shown me that I really can work writing into my everyday life. I didn't think I could. It does admittedly cause a lack of sleep and coffee overdoses, but I can deal with that. The main thing is that NaNoWriMo and all the ensuing chaos are really convincing me that I can make a go of writing professionally. I feel like I'd worked out how not to be nervous about other people reading my work, but part of me still didn't think I would be able to do it. There is so much work involved in writing, and I have never written a full-length novel before. I wasn't sure I could. But, I'm doing it. In less than three weeks, I'll have done it. And if I finish the novel with less than 50K words, I'll put a thank you page in front for my coffee maker, my eye drops, and all the innocent coffee beans sacrificed to my art :-)
Ok, enough procrastinating. Time to go write more of the novel. Sad, to procrastinate on one writing project, I work on another... [shaking head at myself] Oh well, that's only because I'm giving AOL's continual crashing when I try to load my mahjong game some significance. Other than the usual bitching that AOL just plain sux. Ok, really enough procrastinating. Besides, the coffee's ready and the cappuccino's empty.