It doesn't seem like two months (a little over that really) has passed since my last post. But it has. I've meant to post several times.
I haven't. But I've meant too.
Things have changed, but overall they are pretty well the same.
My sister, her husband and two youngest kids (as well as an adult daughter going through a divorce) have been staying with us in a large camper/small trailer since April. They are moving.
Hallelujah!
Don't misunderstand, I love my sister. But having somebody else constantly in the house (and regularly waking me up, might I add) has been trying. I'm not a people person.
Well, that's not true; I am a people person. I'm not a live with somebody else person.
This is one of the reasons I am not married.
I can tolerate my mother, but honestly I don't like living with others. I love having people over (and did all the time in
I can't truly get that here.
But I cope. I've set up my bedroom to aide with this, but it only works if there are few than two people here (my mother and I.) If there is more than that... well... it fails.
My sister and her family will be moving to the nearby town of
In other news, I have a promotion at work. I am now a floor manager at work. It means I have to work just as hard (harder) as before, but am now responsible to see others also work hard. There hasn't been mention of a raise yet, but it has only officially happened last week. So we'll see. There better be something. Not that I will quit, and not necessarily that I deserve it. Only that it would be nice to see the praise (of which I get quite a bit of) be rewarded with something other than more responsibility.
It is fall at last, and I am glad. Summer here is over bearing. Too much. Like the winters in
I Ran into some old high school folk at work tonight. I am surprised to find out he's read my blog a bit. It was good to see them. Both he and his wife graduated the same year I did. Put me in a cheerful mood, and I'm always surprised (for some reason) to run into people from my youth.
I've decided to participate this year in National Novel Writing Month. It's November. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel from the 1st to the 30th of November. That being said: I haven't been writing as much as a should. There are two plays that are outlined. One being an expansion of a one act whose characters and thoughts I felt could be explored more (that one being called Palour Tricks.) the other being a re-write of my play Fitzlephisch. It's a play that I wrote in 2005, a full length, completely irreverent that has been plaguing me for 4 years. It needs rewritten, some what badly. But I had no idea how to go about doing that until a month ago. Now I know. The outline stays roughly the same, but the focus of the narrator changes, as well as several scenes. I'm rather excited about it. But I digress. The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. In order to do that, I have to pump out 1666 words a day. That is a lot. Perhaps if I were unemployed no, but for a working man who is inherently lazy, that is a lot. I am going to be working up that. Now the goal is 500 a day. Next week 750. The week after that 1000. I'll get there if that's the last thing I do. Once November hits I'll be writing 1500 a day and will be able to focus on my novel.
I have no idea what it's going to be. But it'll be fun.
(For the record, this post was over 800 words... not bad. Not bad at all.)
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 12:10 AM
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Write on, man. Write on. I tried doing the National writing month last year, and failed horribly.
It's not easy, but I've found myself consistent so far. Wrote about 650 words yesterday. Working on a short story that I had been fiddling around with for nearly 9 years now. I plan on working on it some more tonight.
Small steps. You should try it again Smurfs, the worst that could happen is that you'll write a little more, and there's never any thing wrong with that.
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