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Friday, November 30, 2007 NaNoWriMo: End Not that it matters much, but I got about 10k in this year. Which is better than last year, but worse than before that. Too much shit flying around to really concentrate on anything creative. I think I managed to write a sentence a day. I'm probably being liberal about that. I had plenty of moments where I felt like writing, but they were brief and usually in the car. *sigh* This has not been my year. In fact, 2007 is shaping up to be the single worst year since 1992. And that was The. Worst. Fucking. Year. Ever. So, unless Armageddon breaks out in the next 31 days, '07 is getting the silver medal. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:59 PM 0 comments Thursday, November 29, 2007 Vote Elroy NELUG elections are this week. I meant to get to this before today, but after just being badgered by email that time is running out, I cast my vote. However, the vast public who regularly swamp this site should not be deprived of my own personal contribution to the campaign:  posted by Evil Wayne | 4:13 PM 0 comments Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Someone's Got Issues Check out Conservapedia's Most viewed pages statistics. posted by Evil Wayne | 10:28 AM 0 comments Thursday, November 15, 2007 NaNoWriMo: Flexible Truthiness I'm not sure I like this idea, but Elroy suggested that I string together everything I've actually written for NaNo, because it--technically--comes under that heading. I've shifted to my third story now, because I'm just not feeling the love with the first two. I've gone from horror, to near-future sci-if to far-future sci-if (with a bit of modern techno-thriller thrown in--and, a concept I am apparently wed to: Time Travel). Three times looks like the charm. This one has taken better root than the previous two. I actually feel like writing it and sticking with it (at this point anyway). So, in a last-ditch effort to not cave in completely with this thing, I've managed to churn out about 5,000 words over the last couple of days. Still way the hell below where I should be at the mid-point (which is 25,000 words, making me off by only 20,000). However, if I decide to use Elroy's suggestion, I end up with just over 8,000. A measly gain of 3k, but at this point, I should take it. I'm still in a debt big, and I'd have to churn out 2800 a day from here hit 50,000 if I take it. Or I'm looking at an extra 200 words a day if I don't. Which can be a lot at this point. I am further along than I should be--all things considered--but not enough. Will I ever win one of these thing? No, don't answer that. posted by Evil Wayne | 8:30 AM 2 comments Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Dumb and Dumber Saturday was Kelly's last cheerleading competition. They managed to squeeze one more in for good measure. They found a comp in Roxbury of all places for the girls to compete. There was some logistical problems with both me and Tine going with TheBoy, so I ended up going myself. I don't mind driving through Boston. I don't even mind some of the surface streets downtown, but it's been awhile since I've had to traverse anything of significance. I got lost left and right just getting there. And once, I later learned, I was about 100 yards away and promptly took a left instead of a right and got lost all over again. Not to mention I got all fouled up in the theater district on a Saturday night. What a freaking nightmare. The team was scheduled to perform at 8:30PM and I didn't get there until almost 9:00. So I missed it. However, that ain't the best part. After the competition, about 9:30, we exited through a back door, which I thought was next to the rear parking lot. It wasn't. I knew we were on the opposite side of the building, but I thought there was a road or path that must cut through to behind the building. There was not. But I figured, the connecting building would surely end and there we could cut over. So we walked up the street. More buildings. I kept thinking there would surely be a way to cut across, but it never materialized. Finally, I could see a cross street and thought we were closer to go up and over than walking back. The street was longer than I expected. And a bit darker, less populated. We made our way down and to what I hoped was Tremont. But it wasn't. We walked a bit faster; too many dark areas. And did I mention this was Roxbury? Saturday night? Kelly would see someone and, in a voice that I thought wasn't soft enough, "Hey, is that guy gonna mug us?" Stuff like that kept coming out of her mouth. I kept telling her to pipe down, but I didn't really want to alarm her, but I didn't want to draw any more attention to ourselves than necessary. At the same time I was acutely aware that I'm not a big guy, and she's dressed like a cheerleader. After walking down this street, we made it yet another street that was not Tremont. But at least there was more traffic, and I finally figured out where I was. The next street was Tremont and from there, the parking lot. So, instead of walking the 0.4 miles to the car in all of 3 minutes it would have originally taken us, we walked over 1.5 miles in about 30 minutes, in 40-degree weather. Did I mention this was Roxbury?   posted by Evil Wayne | 10:28 AM 2 comments Friday, November 09, 2007 Retarded In the bathroom mirror here at work, I just noticed a piece of paper stuck to the side of my shirt. Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be the tag. I've been wearing my shirt inside-out since I put it on. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:02 PM 1 comments Monday, November 05, 2007 NaNoWriMo: Changing Horses at the Shallow End My head is just not in this. The "horror story" complete with unintentional Lovecraftian influences, I just can't get it off the ground. For starters, the initial prologue is set in 1675. I started writing it and I just can't seem to get the dialogue to sound anything remotely like I imagine people in 1675 New England would speak. And I know I shouldn't give a shit at this point, I mean NaNo is all about garbage, but there's something so incredibly fake about it that it's getting under my skin. I jumped to the opening and, again, it's just not coming out in any way that doesn't feel like I'm just forcing myself to throw it up like the end of bad drinking binge. So I just stopped and I opened up my notebook of idea fragments and started running through them for something that I might actually feel like writing. It's not a big loss at this point, I'm still under 1k of words written, even if I do stick with what I've already started. Switching at this point might not mean anything. Now, strangely, as I'm writing this, I'm starting to have second thoughts about the whole thing. Should I in fact, dump what I've already started? I might get a bigger boost from something that I want to write at the moment. But I could just as easily get bogged down again--something that might happen no matter what I try to stick with. Aw hell. And none of this takes any of the other bullshit that is my wacky-sitcom life into account. All that garbage hasn't help me concentrate on anything coherent. I'm going to sleep on it, it's too late to really do anything about it tonight. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:48 PM 1 comments Friday, November 02, 2007 NaNoWriMo: So Sloooow... The NaNo website is so freaking slow that it's not really possible to do anything meaningful there. Just clicking on the forums link take too long for me to wait (being an American and all). And speaking of slow, I am now at a whopping 348 words! If nothing changes for today, that puts me at an almost 3k word deficit! Can you say awesome? It's not helping that I only have the vaguest idea of a plot and a smattering of the characters. So much for being more prepared this year (although, to be fair, life has been a fucking roller-coaster of misery lately, so I'm not really beating myself up here). It's also not helping that, since the office got rearranged, there are no empty spaces for me to hide in. That was important the last couple of years as it gave me a place to close off from the rest of the world. Now, my cube is it and it's up front. While today isn't that noisy, the rest of the week is and that makes concentrating difficult. Randomly, the theme from The Love Boat keeps running through my head. I'm sure it means something. posted by Evil Wayne | 2:12 PM 2 comments Thursday, November 01, 2007 Kick It: NaNoWriMo Style Now, to completely sweep the last 12+ weeks under the rug... And to expose an apparent lie that I told a short while ago, I am, in fact, going in for yet another blast of NaNoWriMo excitement. Only this time, I've got a plan. Unfortunately, my brain refuses to let me in on it, so I'll just wing it until more information becomes available. I'm staying away from science fiction this year and will try my hand at horror. Yes, in the middle of all the other excitement in my life, I'm back to trying to knock out 2,000 words of crap and hope it forms a narrative. Come on people, wish me luck! 2 comments |
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