The Aerie
Okay, okay, so I haven't posted in a week. I'm bad.
In my defense, I've been investing my writing time preparing for National Novel Writing Month, which begins tomorrow. Supposedly I'll be writing 1,667 words every day: probably I'll be writing 12,500 words every weekend. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
So what haven't I posted about?
Well, I didn't post about my battery dying and having to take my car to the garage because I needed it to work the next morning, first thing. And I didn't post about how, the next morning, I got a flat within two blocks of leaving my house. And I didn't post about how, after rescheduling several meetings, visiting the dentist, meeting with my accountant, and cramming to get everything at work rearranged, I got chewed out by a colleague for "dropping the ball." I didn't post about any of that.
Probably better forgotten.
I also didn't post about how, with college and Nanowrimo to work on, I spent Saturday facilitating my kids' Hallowe'en party, and then on Sunday we went to see our friend Ellis at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts at 11:00 a.m., on Sunday night at 8:00 we had tickets to go see the Indigo Girls. So Saturday and Sunday were pretty much a loss, productivity-wise. I hate it when this happens - I want to enjoy myself, but when the entire weekend is left to partying it gets frustrating...
I did manage to get out on Sunday afternoon for a couple of hours to think about my Nanowrimo novel, and at least I scraped a few ideas together. Given the amount of actual, paying work I have to do today, and the Hallowe'en duties tonight, I suspect that the couple of hours I've had are going to be all I get.
As far as Nano goes, I'm considering posting excerpts from my daily writing on here. I can't post the whole thing for copyright reasons - by posting it every day to the world I would have a hard time finding a publisher should it come to that - but I could post excerpts. And that would help keep me on track, if I pretend that my audience (hah!) would object to missing a day.
We'll see! About 13 hours to go!
Hmmm.. Apparently Scott Adams has been following me home...
Posted by Albatross at October 31, 2006 10:26 AM | TrackBackSweet - make your NaNo about some army guys, and I'll illustrate it for you.
We should hit Al's here before too long. I'm going into Bacon Deficit mode, it's sorta like scurvy, but a little more salty. Let me know when works.
Posted by: Jay at October 31, 2006 4:09 PMDefinitely time for an Al's run - I need to find out how you're doing since the disaster of the day after the LAST Al's run...
Posted by: Albatross at October 31, 2006 5:50 PM