Friday, September 16, 2011

A goal for year 31

I want to try to write a blog post every day.  Yeah, yeah, probably not going to happen.  Once a week would be an improvement.

Regardless, it's September, and I'm itching to write.  There are 195 stories on the list, most of them dead, but still.  That's 195 things I could be working on, and 195 things that I'm currently just not interested in working on.  Not today, anyway.

The most recent was based on a coherent dream sequence; I still don't know why in the dream wyvern venom was a requisite component of magical teleportation.  I'm also not sure where one would come by wyvern venom on Manhattan, given the lack of, you know, wyverns.

There's a lot of other stuff I want to pull the meat out of and put together, since a lot of the stories I started were because I had an idea for a character, or a scene, but  no plot.  They're like meat trimmings, and I need to put them all together and make sausage.

I think that's the grossest analogy regarding writing I've ever made.

I need to learn how to make sausage!  No, no, not the edible kind...

Yeah, that totally sounds wrong.

So,  yeah, I want to do at least a little bit of writing every day, for public consumption, here.  The more I have to do, the more I do.

So the current list of projects is something like:
  • Finish sewing renaissance outfit
  • Gardening (end-of-season stuff, planning)
  • Writing
  • Finish touch-ups on office painting
  • Paint patio posts
  • Fish pond fall/winter prep

Which isn't really too terribly time intensive until you consider the social hobbies and, you know, work:
  • Work 40-50 hours/week
  • 10 hours of commuting/week
  • Guild administration
  • Raiding (3-6 hours/week)
  • Monday night gaming
  • Tenure binder
  • Work project planning (National Gaming Day, NaNoWriMo)

Crap, NaNoWriMo.

And I do like to sleep sometimes.

But yeah, a little bit of writing every day.

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