Friday, December 31, 2010

We Know Your Secret!

Well, I need to start by saying this is the last of the old year, last of 2010, y’all. And if a lot of people are right, we’ve only got one more of these before the end of the world where the planet bursts into flames or something of the like.

Anyway, I just dropped in for something fun, no reflecting, no whining about the past year. I think that if you wanted to see my year, you could look back through here and check. A lot has changed, but change is a constant and its to be expected.

What I have come to tell you is that Anderson Cooper has been lying to us! Look at him! He was Veela all along.

anderson-cooper

That lying bastard…

Happy New Years!

Saturday, December 04, 2010

NaNoWriMo

Okay, its not November anywhere in the universe anymore. So everyone should be firmly done with their pledges for NaNoWriMo, right?

I wouldn’t laugh at that statement if I had ever known a single writer who kept to that one month to write a novel thing. But I don’t know a single one. Even the ones who do have the speed. It’s why I find it kind of ironic that people seem to enter into it year after year.

It’s the same issue I have with New Year’s Resolutions. They’re typically the kind of things that we do need to change, but for some stupid reason we feel the need to wait until some arbitrary start date instead of saying, “This ends now! I’m turning things around!”

Let me just say this: anything so unimportant that you can wait until the next year to start working on it…any novel you can wait around until November to write—is probably a waste of time because you weren’t serious in the first place and you’re going to fail at it for that very reason.

And if you think I’m just talking out of my ass, I’ve actually got the speed to do NaNo and actually could hit that magical fifty thousand number this week…with something I started at 11 pm on November 27th. I’m thirty seven thousand words in.

The difference is when I set deadlines, they’re based on my speed. When I set deadlines, they’re set by me. I actually aim to get them done, I bust my ass to do it and I typically start right when I set them.

If you seriously want to write, cut the bullshit and write year round. 

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Apparently people like lesbians….