Magic my friend

Ding 74 about a hour before work. Woot! Half of my Christmas shopping already done and wrapped waiting to be placed underneath my wee little Charlie Brown tree. Done. One book already read and a second up in line? I'll raise you for a done! The back yard looking tidier than it has in months? Done (to the square)!

What has brought this flury of productiveness? Umm, well, I'll show you.

Meet my inner editor.

Editor waves and smiled beaurocratically.

Using the knowledge of every manical Looney Toons character known to man we put this unevolved and supremely annoying fungus out of its misery with a combination of acid, Acme boxing gloves and a zamboni.

/dusts off hands and pats back for a job well done

/treats for Jup (he was a big moral support)

Oh crap.

Ghost of inner editor waves and cracks knuckles eager to get to work destroying all creativity around it.

Anyone know a good exorcist?

It is Official!!

NaNoWriMo has ended and I have won!

/cheer

/happy dance

Thank you to everyone who supported me and put up with my whining! You rock way more than you know! :)

The best part is my novel is still going and I like it enough to keep with it! But for now I think I am going to go wallow in purple bar land. Or run around the neighborhood screaming like a manic Hello Kitty fan. I haven't really decided.


Kapow!

(The best part is I can use conjunctions again!)

Chicken

So sometimes my brain and myself do not see eye to eye. I am the responsible one. Brain is not so much. Wrimo ends today. For me Wrimo should have ended yesterday but my attention was elsewhere. Namely fending off brain and his lame idea army. It went something like this:

You know for the sake of your hands you shouldn't write today. Take a day off, relax, enjoy life, yadda yadda.

Not interested Brain, go away.

I have a surprise for you...

Oh god save me, what is it?

Look in the backpack.

/looks and falls due to an anyuresm from seeing a book in there
->Gets back up before new officer notices and tries to decide the best way to kill Brain

Not funny.

I read that book for hours yesterday. I could not stop until I got home where I typed up the measly 3 pages I had to show for 8 hours of work (/sigh) and then had to word war another 3 thousand out. Grand total starting today is 44009. Only 6000 to go. Sweet. Wait...oh crap. The books is back in the backpack.

Gah! I can see that sadistic bastard I call a brain laughing at me. I will finish Wrimo and if you read this there is a good chance I'll be calling the moment I am verified!

Back to Wrimo! Charge!

/hand cramp

/sigh

Ugga Ugga Splat

41,000 words...9,000 to go. Ugh.

/head-desk

/again

Ok I'm awake. Well, I lie but still this is the best it's going to get today.

Once more with feeling!

/head-desk

Redemption, Tis the Season

A couple of years ago I was at Borders in Marlborough (big surprise) and unbeknown to me there was an author event. Usually authors chat it up with their readers, answer questions and even sometimes read passages from their books. It's great. I have been to a couple like Salvatore (he was really big with me at the time and still is fondly a favorite for fluff) and Brian Jacques (seriously I started reading his books when I was 11, this was huge and still one of my best memories!) both of which turned out really good crowds. Considering the time I spend at Borders I have stumbled on to many more and watched them all play out. This one day no one showed up. I mean no one. It was early on a Monday too but I felt really bad for this lady. Despite really feeling bad for her, (she was upset, rightly so, and packed up after awhile) I could not get up and go talk to her. I can make the excuses of shyness and a slight panic attack, the fact that I had never heard of the woman or any of her books, all of that is understandable but still, at the end of the day I felt like a tool.

I have regretted this since then.

So today I walk into Borders for a little browsing and relaxation and oh boy it is author day. Not one, not two but 14 local authors there to sign, talk and overall look good over by the music section. At least there were people talking to them, I did not feel obligated. But these people were one step ahead of me. Walking around the store they would come up to people, introduce their books (and themselves) and have a nice little conversation with you. Over all I talked to 7 of them, some who came up to me and others who I went up to.

While it can't help that women who had a bad day years ago I think karma may accept it anyways. Some of the books sounded really interesting and though I could not buy them today I have their names for either the TBL or TBR lists. Rock on writers, rock on!

Yes I am still alive

At least I think I am. Pardon the rambliness of this post I was up doing word sprints and word wars till past 2am. What are word wars? Well there is a particular forum and there you will find 10, 15, 20, and even 30 minute posts. What you do is post the time you want the war to start and then type as much as fast as you can and post how many words you got at the ending time. I must say I did not do too shabby word count wise, these blasted things helped me get to nearly 31,000 words, but man are they tireing.

Maybe if I wrote here words would fly out perfectly that actually helped my plot along (as opposed to what came out last night that turned one of my toughest characters into a winy cheating baby). Or at least it would be green there. Hmmm if you can't find me later I went looking for this place.

So I have made a list...ok big surprise I know.

The What to do when Wrimo ends list!

1) WoW, play lots of WOW. I want to level, I want to kill stuff and most of all I want my leatherworking to up dammit. Plus instances, there are so many I have not run yet and with all the DK's around I can get Lecanu through some too. Woot! Plus I miss my pets.

2) Read. I have a mini TBR pile waiting, my best propsective books are picked up and linned up against the wall like a line up. However it is possibly I might ignore all the new books I have to read and just jump into the first Kushiel Trilogy. Hmm haven't decided yet.

3) Sleep...like lots, maybe even a day of as much sleep I can manage. A binge of sleep.

4) Clean my house. NanoWriMo is not nice when I have to write so much and then think of the cleaning later. Specifically I need to dust. It's the old cleaning lady motto, "Get the dust before it gets you: (said in little old lady engish accent*).

Well with that I am off (like a prom dress, lol) to try and function on very little sleep. Happy Tuesday to all and to all a good turkey! Mmmmmmmmmmm turkey. MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm stuffing. Mmmmmmmmmmmm food porn.

LOL

I was only checking my blog list tonight before starting to type my wrimo up...ugh. Anyways this was just so perfect I had to steal it. Well, after I stopped laughing my butt off anyways. Happy Wednesday all! Hmmm and Thursday too!

(Gamer cat needs more Dew!)