NaBloPoMo
Y'all, it is a good thing UrbanHonking has that main site that lists all the blogs as they update, or I'm not sure anyone would come here anymore. I feel like a bad mother who went out for a pack of cigs and came back two weeks later. But, I'm back now, baby! Doncha still love me? I brought you a pinwheel and a stick of beef jerky.
But you see now it is November, so now I will be back and better than before. Because one of the things I like to do is impose meaningless deadlines on myself and then stress out when I'm not meeting them. And even though I am now in a "writing club" (along with a "cooking club," and possibly a "craft club" and "mahjong club." Oh my god do my Denver friends like clubs), I think I might kill myself if I tried to do NaNoWriMo. I think the ideas is especially hard for me after working in publishing for five years, where if you learn one thing it is that just because someone writes several hundred thousand words, a novel it does not necessarily make. You know who submitted a lot of novels? Prisoners. So I've spent a lot of time reading bad writing, which makes me lose faith in writers, and reading a lot of great writing, which makes me realize there are reasons I am on the other side of the desk.
This is all to say that while I am too much of a wimp to commit myself to a month of novel writing, I think I can totally write on this blog every day for a month. And there is a NaBloPoMo set up just for lazy non-writing bums like me! And I don't even want to hear it if it was your New Year's resolution to post on your blog every day and you have been doing it. I know. You = awesome. Me = sucka.
I owe you a drink. For a gmail account. Now that you're in the area (ie, state) let me know if you'd like to collect.
Yay for once a day! You are without doubt in my 5 favroite types of procrastination.
And what a great month for me to start my 2nd novel. I think I'll actually be starting *two* novels this month! (Shhhh.)
I'll need a pseudonym, by the way. Am taking suggestions.
(Chesty McGee is out.)
Something just occurred to me.
Now that you're not at your old job anymore, does that mean you can start leaking query letters again retroactively? Because I would love that.
I'm doing it too, sister. Let us boost one another up, shall we?? Sisters are doing it for themselves!
Oh, it's on. I will thank you for bringing the current world wide blog posting demise to my attention but do not promise to be your web-friend in this challenge.
The score is currently 1-1.
I didn't come here to make friends. I came here to win.
It sounds like what with your 87 clubs, you will have plenty to write about. You could also join a club club, which will meet to discuss how to better manage your existing clubs.