Yesterday was awesome as I'd been lucky enough to be invited to my friend and co-worker Richard's home. He and his boyfriend Scott laid out some wonderful snacks and we went around in a circle, telling each other about our respective stories. Then we dived into our tales and wrote for a good long while. Then we made lunch together, wrote some more, went for Mitchell's ice cream, gorged ourselves on pumpkin ice cream and played the board game Witch's Brew. All in all, I really hope they'll have more write-ins. Not only for the unsurpassed company and camaraderie, but also for the wide selection of ice cream shops in their vicinity! :D
Today was slow going on the writing front. I've been trying to do some editing for a friend's book while writing mine and trying to do work and my commute too. I actually had to put in my two weeks for various reasons [what can I say? Life's a drag...]. Good news? I get to do all of my side jobs and projects including NaNoWriMo. Bad news? I'll be missing that nice paycheck. Not to mention this economy is really tough right now. The world's depressed, tomorrow is voting day, tensions are high, stress is overflowing like sour milk and rotten honey, but through it all...I've got my NaNo!!!
People have been saying how hard it is to keep up with NaNo, that so many things get in the way. For me it's about how NaNo is my escape from it all. It's not hard for me, in fact, it's almost too easy to dive into it and forget everything else. It's been slowly becoming my one shining light in my day because the only person I have to please is myself and there's no one to tell me my characters are shit, my plot's been done before or that I'm 'wasting my time'. That'll all come later when I'm editing and people are wondering why the hell I'm even bothering to do that. But by that time I'll have a solid first draft and can give them the middle finger while I critique the hell out of my shit. Because whatever bad things others have to say, I tell myself worse.
By the by, I may not have anything written at all tomorrow as it is my BIRTHDAY!!! Yup! The day God got confused with his molds and sort of had a field day with them instead, saying "FUCK IT!"
~The Job Juggler
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