And now, what you've all been waiting for -- that excerpt from my NaNoWriMo project! I came really close to just calling it quits on this this weekend. I mean, it sounds kinda silly -- why bother writing something one knows is crap, just so one can say, "HeY, I wRoTe A fItTy-gEe WoRd NoVeL iN oNe MoNtH, yO!!!!" STUPID! Especially when I could be sitting down, actually taking my time, and trying to write something good. I've also noticed that it's much more difficult for me to write here (that is, in my room), as opposed to at work. This is like my master workshop, so it's really difficult for me (I guess) to write crap while at my esteemed machine. But at work I'm just passing time (and am usually suffering from quite the lack of sleep), so it's hardly as frustrating and dissapointing an endeavor. Sigh. (more...)

Okay, so it's time for my answers to Val's three questions. It's just like the Friday Five, except minus two! Here goes... (more...)

Word count: 7,875

Not very pleased with that, but whatever. I'm going to bed now. More to come later!

And did you check out that excerpt? I told you it was crazy crap -- and you haven't seen the half of it.

Hey all -- haven't really gotten any work done on the novel yet today, but I did come home and sleep for a few hours, so hopefully I'll have the energy to buckle down and make some gains on it right now. Shooting for 8K+ before I sleep, but I'll be thrilled if I break 9K. We'll see. I did update the word count and post an excerpt in my user profile, though, so feel free to have a look at that. I'll post a much longer excerpt RIGHT HERE IN THE BLOG this weekend! Or maybe I'll post it on Scary-Crayon. I dunno. In any case, I will be posting that somewhere. Soon. So stay tuned!

And do feel free to comment on my "political" ramblings below -- I'd like to know that at least something in there made sense. 🙂

Word count: 6,235

Now, don't go getting all impressed, because The Absolute Strangest Christmas Story Ever Told is a mess of insane crap. At this point, it's not even about Christmas. And you can bet that 2K+ words deal with that very fact. But it will be, eventually -- and I expect the transition itself to take betweek 2K and 3K words. Like they say on the NaNoWriMo website, this challenge is about quantity, not quality. If quality were the goal, the window would be a lot longer than a month. But it's not, so I'm writing lots of insane crap to make it to 50K. I'll probably post an excerpt in the coming days, but in the meantime here's a link to a really old blog post I wrote back in September of 2002 that still exists on archive.org. The novel in progress, while different as far as subject matter goes, possesses the same strange and random character of that entry.

I've already begun to answer Val's three questions, but since I'm obviously not going to finish that before I leave here in the next few minutes, I'll have to post those answers after I get off from the bookstore -- or even tomorrow from the job, depending on how tired I am. In any case, look for those tomorrow.

As well as a new bookstore episode of Scary-Crayon's Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash!

Oh, and curse these fucking election results.