Trouble Letting Go...

I'm still in NaNo land -- reading forums and following cool links to all sorts of writing inspired challenges and stuff -- things I didn't have time for when trying to corral 50k/30d.

Here's one -- test how fast you can type:

67 words

Typing Test

There's a little disclaimer at the bottom informing the user it's not 100% accurate ...so I'm gonna go with that! 57 words/m? Oi, I'm SLLLLOOOW. Jim is faster than me!!! (Pam Beesly would laugh through her nose at me.)

Edited: so yeah, went back and improved by 10 words... if I keep up the improvement rate, (+10 words every day, times 330 days)... Uhm, uh... I could do next years NaNo in like, uhm, less than five days. Yeah.

(Someone who knows how to do algebra? Ples, halp?)

"...it's, like, better than losing?"

You know, Joe Fox says that The Godfather is the "i-ching, the sum of all wisdom, the answer to any queston..."

Well, I dispute that. To me? It's Bull Durham. There's always a pertinent quote to be culled from that movie.

Anyway: I won! Now, I'm going to have a much deserved movie night with my family, without who's patience I could not even attempt to write 50,000 + words in 30 days. Thank you, Chris Baty and Co. for a wonderful "30 days and nights of literary abandon." This aspiring author totally appreciates what y'all do.


I'll see y'all in a week or so...

More Ignominious Self Aggrandizement

I like big WORDS and I cannot lie...

I'm not exactly tearing up the field, but I'm holding my own.



Staying just a little ahead of the daily goal, my word count is healthy even if my plotline is anemic.

Editing. It's what December is for.

Shameless Fist Pumping

I already put it up over on my Writer's Group blog (Pens and Pages Writer's Group) but I'm going to put it over here, just because I need all the dangling carrots I can get:




Lot's of Wrimo's swear by it. And I'm not sure I've EVER written like my life depended upon it before. So, yesh (as my Jr. High-er says.)

If I procrastinate again? I'm settin' that sucker to "kamakaze" and throwing some Hail Mary's baby!

Weezer is the Funniest Band in Rock

When I'm pounding on boards or sanding floors or puttin' graphite on doors,
to make the time run smooth, and get into the groove, and really enjoy what I do,
I hum.

And at least 60% of the time the tune that ambles unbeckoned into my head?
Sum'ing by Weezer.

I love these guys. Enjoy.

http://

Oops I did it again...

I think I'm beating a dead horse with that title...it's been a looooong time since Ms. Spears could be considered an innocent, if flirtatious schoolgirl...

Showing my unhipness aside, I'm doing it again. Hopefully, in about 26 days, that badge'll change to "...2009 WINNER!"

I'm cooking along, with a respectable bank of words right now, suffering a smidge here and there of that form of anxiety particular (it seems) to writers: self-doubt...but I just tell Self Doubt to shove it! Heheheh.

I Want To Pass It On...

Hee -- I love that song; every time I hear it, I'm back in front of a campfire, swaying and singing in harmony.

Anyway... I found a WONDERFUL Writer's Blog, and (see post title) to everyone who happens by this Siberian Blog. (Yes. I am in Siberia. 'S why no one visits me. **pout**)

Anyhoo, without further adoo (poet; didn't know it) the Aforementioned (love those big words!) Blog:

http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/index.htm

Go there; Live, Learn & Prosper.

Namaste (because I am just that much of a poseur)

(Actually...I'm painstakingly refinishing a floor and there just might have been a little too much inhalin' of the fumes. We're still running the tests. Get back to you with the results in a later dispatch. Ooooh -- cliffhanger! Now you HAVE to come back Bwahahahahahah)