Oct

31

11 hours to NaNoWriMo

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Only eleven hours left till NaNoWriMo starts. I have decided that, as I have to work in the morning, it would be best for me not to stay up and start writing at midnight, like so many other participants will. I have a somewhat easy day at work on Wednesday and have a dentist appointment at 1:40 so I will be leaving work early and trying to get as much writing in as I can in between my other duties. My goal for tomorrow is about 2000 words to get it all going. I’m really just hoping to average about 1700 words a day. I just need to get my butt in the chair and write, write, write. Keep tapping that keyboard till my fingers hurt and I’ll be just fine.

Fever (Live) from the album “Come Fly With Me” by Michael Bublé

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Oct

26

Ok This is really funny

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I know that I don’t usually put stuff like this on my personal blog but this little gem that I just couldn’t resist.


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White & Nerdy (Parody of “Ridin’” By Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone) from the album “Straight Outta Lynwood” by “Weird Al” Yankovic

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Oct

25

Gearing up For Nano

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Well the count down is at seven days to the start of NaNoWriMo. I’m starting to get anxious about it. I have resigned myself to do my best and I think that my wife is going to support me while I try to hit that deadline of 1667 words a day. I am excited but I also have this sense of dread. It is hard to explain, and I feel like I’m being torn in two separate directions. I am truly excited to get to write with a deadline (which I feel I need badly) and with a decent story idea rolling around in my head. I’ve \just started to uncover my story “fossil”, as Mr. King would say, and it really has me anxious to get writing. I’m actually to the point where I don’t want to wait the seven days to get started.

On the flip side, I am scared to dead that I have to write 1667 words a day and still work, take care of my household and spend time with my wife and family. I have really battling with this little bit over the last few days. I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that , yeah a few loads of laundry may not get done, and I may not be able to spend as much time with my family as I do now, but damn it I really want to write. I know that they love me and I hope that they will still love me on December 1st, because I’m going to do my best to finish my 50,000 words. Look out NaNoWriMo here I come.

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Oct

21

Here I am, on my new laptop

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I finally got my new laptop for work. It is quite nice, a brand new MacBook Pro. I am finally getting it to the point where it is set up to my liking. I’m also excited that I will have it for NaNoWriMo next month. It will make writing so much easier if I have a laptop that I can take with me to appointments and on breaks at work. I’ll be able to squeeze in as many words as possible in a day. Needless to say I am very excited.

On the NaNoWriMo front, I’m a bit nervous. I have never written anything more than about 5,000 words. I’m hoping that I can put together a story that will hold up over a span of about 10 times as many words. I know that everyone says not to expect much from what you write, but I always expect the best from my self. I try to put forward the best effort I can in everything I do. Hopefully I’ll be able to come close to the word count of 50,000 words. So needless to say I’m excited to do NaNoWriMo but I’m nervous as hell that I will fail.

I guess I’m just confused, which is the story and state of my life.

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Oct

13

I did it, I bit the bullet.

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I’m going to do NaNoWriMo this year. I’m going to buckle down and do my best to get 50,000 words out. I’ll be posting about my progress here. The trials of balancing a full time job, my family and home life and cranking out 50,000 words in 30 days should make for some interesting reading.

I will occasionally be including excerpts from my novel. I now have to come up with an idea. I have one bouncing around in my head. It is the story of my character in my friend Dave’s Fantasy Role-playing Game. I’m going to use some artistic license so I want to make sure that it is ok with Dave first. It is his world, he created it’s history and all the politics. I want to make sure he is cool with me writing about it. If he isn’t cool with me using his world I still have some time to come up with another idea.

I have to give a big Thank You to my wife. She reluctantly agreed to let me do this. I just hope that I don’t make her regret it. I am really psyched about this. I am really looking forward to writing my first novel. So wish me luck.

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Oct

12

NaNoWriMo is coming

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Quite frankly I’m scared to death. For those of you who don’t know NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. You basically have to write a 50,000 word novel, or 50,000 words of a novel in a scant thirty days. I promised myself after last years NaNoWriMo, that I would try it in 2006. Now I am staring it right in the face and I’m scared to death. I am scared about having to average 1,667 words a day to reach the goal. I’m scared about not being able to write something decent. I’m scared that I won’t reach the goal of 50,000 words in a month. I’m scared that my wife won’t want me to do it and talk me out of it. I’m scared that I will fail and never want to try again. I have to face the fact that I’m just scared. I’ve always had a hard time finishing things. I’m a great starter but a horrible finisher. I’ve started so many things in my life and very rarely do I finish them. I think that NaNoWriMo would be good for me. I need to have a deadline hanging over my head, and a community of other authors, dealing with exactly what I am, as a support group. I also need the support of my family. That is the one fear that I have in going into this venture, that my wife and family won’t understand and support me in this. I’m going to have a talk with my wife tonight and see if I can count on her to try and help me with this. I really want to get that first book out of the way. I’m hoping that I can use NaNoWriMo to jump start my writing and get me to finally finish what I start. I will never be a writer unless I finish a book. Thanks to Neil Gaiman for that little bit of advice.

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Oct

10

It has been a long time.

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I know that I’ve been a bad boy, and that I haven’t posted in a long time and there has been a reason. My personal life has taken the prominent role that it should have in my life, which has left very little time for my internet pursuits. That and work has been trying to say the least. We have been transferring over to a new system of building ads, which has required the ad builders to be retrained. They have all taken to the new programs well and are way ahead of everyones expectations. I believe that in another week or so they will be right back to where they were before the transition. I’m now starting to get back to a semblance of normalcy, so I hope to be posting on a more regular basis.

On a personal note, My wife and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this past weekend in Bretton Woods, NH at the Mt. Washington Hotel. It was a gorgeous weekend spent with an even more gorgeous woman. I’ll put some photos here but many more can be found both here and here. Enjoy the photos.








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