I started a new blog with the idea that I’d be starting off with a clean plate, so to speak, and would update more often. That hasn’t quite panned out the way I planned. But I’m here anyway.
Summer’s over and I am looking forward to November and Nanowrimo. October is supposed to be my planning month, but I have yet to get off my butt and do any of that yet. No worries. It’s on the calendar for tonight. My problem is I read too much. Unfortunately for me, there are tons of books out, or about-to-come-out that I want to read. My local library-the Pablo Creek branch of the Jacksonville Library system is teh awesome. Right now, I have approximately 65 books out. Will I read them all? Probably not, but I want to. J I justify it by calling it research, but we all know that that is just another word for procrastination. If I want to get anywhere, I need to put the writing ahead of the reading. And I’m working on that. Really. Instead of checking books out of the library, I’ve begun compiling a list of books that I want to take out from the library-as a writing reward. How’s that for a dangling carrot? In the meantime, I know that the majority of those 65 books will return to the library unread, as I get adjusted to following a Budget and a Schedule. Yay me. I feel like a grownup now.
I celebrated a birthday last week. Pretty uneventful, as I was in bed by 8:00pm. My 1st born baby turned 18 yesterday. Now that was a little traumatic for me. But I am pretty damned proud of the boy young man. He writes too. However, he says that he is not ready to share his work with anyone. And no matter how much I pester him, that pretty much includes me too. When he was 11 or 12, we started a collaboration on a story, round-robin style. I still have those sloppy handwritten pages, but they couldn’t mean more to me.
So, this is going to be a busy month. I’m working on Lessons 3-4 on the How to Think Sideways course. I think it is going well for me. I am opening up to new possibilities and getting to know my muse a bit better. I am also working through 21 Days to a Novel in preparation for NaNoWriMo. I guess I’m in a learning phase, and eager to put all these cool new tools to use. I gave a half-assed attempt to Nano last year. I really wasn’t into it. That unwritten remains so, but the characters are still in my head. Perhaps I will find a new world for them to inhabit. There is a growing crowd in my head, and I am trying to distinguish the voices I’m hearing. That is the hard part. Right now, it’s mostly white noise, and nothing is really STANDING OUT just yet.
