\nSo I didn’t post a whole hell of a lot this month. Part of it was football angst and not wanting to keep beating a dead horse. Part of it was down to Thanksgiving and a good bit of travel and company and the like. There were some parties, there was out-of-town dinner company from twenty years ago, there was babysitting (some) and church (on Thursdays?) and a lot of outerwear purchasing – after buying NO new outerwear for myself in 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008, I’m up to 3 and counting in 2009, plus one or two as gifts.\n<\/p>\n
\nBut the big thing that ate up my free time was NaNoWriMo.\n<\/p>\n
\nYes, at long last, five years after first considering it, I knuckled down and churned out fifty THOUSAND words in thirty days. Now, in fairness, some of it was a rehash of stuff I’d thought up before, and a lot of it is thinly-veiled personal history, and things like characterization and plot went out the window in favor or raw narrative. It’s honestly not fit for consumption, which is kind of the point – the goal here was to get fifty thousand words out into the keyboard just to show that I could physically do the dump.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe next one will be a little more serious. Inasmuch as it was a pitch for “why I need a netbook,” it kind of fell flat – the 13″ Macbook is still the straw that stirs the drink for blogger and NaNoWriter alike.\n<\/p>\n
\nA great finish, though. I’m glad I pulled it off, just like the old days – a wild finish, but I’m done before the office closes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I didn’t post a whole hell of a lot this month. Part of it was football angst and not wanting to keep beating a dead horse. Part of it was down to Thanksgiving and a good bit of travel and company and the like. There were some parties, there was out-of-town dinner company from … <\/p>\n