Novel

November is shaping up to be quite the month already.  And not necessarily in a good way.

First of all, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month.  The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days.  And that's it.  If you do that, you win.  If you don't, then no big deal.  There's no trophy or award or publishing deal.  You just write and if you make your goal, you get the satisfaction of knowing you wrote an actual novel.  The funny thing is no one even expects it to be good, especially since you're writing the novel at such break-neck speed.  So, that kind of takes the pressure off.  I'm not writing an epic here.  I'm just trying to write a book.  And of course, I'm already way behind but I am writing every day and I hope I can catch up on my next day off tomorrow.  The plan is to knock out these 50,000 words by the end of the month.  If I do, I'll be happy.  If I don't, then I'll still be somewhat happy that I at least made an attempt.  I've never written a piece of fiction over 10,000 words before so this will be a real challenge for me.  I'm not even that great at fiction so that makes the challenge all the more difficult but I figured I would at least give it a shot.

So, if I finish and think what I wrote is crap, I'll just trash it.  If I think there's some potential, I will continue working on it.  If I think it's good enough to self-publish but not sell, I might give away a few copies to those interested.  But, that's looking too far ahead.  I have to finish it first.

My Cintiq finally came in on Thursday.  I was excited but not as much as I was thinking I would be.  I guess I felt more relief than anything knowing it was finally here after waiting a month for it, not knowing when it would arrive.  I don't have a desk or software or a computer upgrade to use it yet, though, so it's still in the box in the living room.  My desk is expected to arrive some time next week so when that gets set up, I'll try to set up the Cintiq and I might hook it up to my old computer just to play around with it.  If my old computer can handle it.  It'll probably need to be totally cleaned out and then upgraded to accommodate all the software I'll need to use.  Just a couple of thousand more dollars.  No big deal.

Also, my cell phone carrier is being transitioned over to AT&T this month so I'm pretty excited about getting the iPhone because I'm a materialistic s.o.b.

So, a lot of stuff is happening this month.  I'll be busy with work and gearing up to start animating again and playing with my new phone and in my free time I'll be trying to pull a book out of my butt.  Also, my favorite band Showbread will release a brand new and free album later this month.  I, as well as several other people, received an advanced copy last night because I sent in a donation to help them fund the making of the album so now I have new music to listen to while all of this is going on.

Unfortunately, the thing I've been looking forward to the most is devouring the new Wisconsin six cheese pizza from Dominos after getting off work yesterday.  It was good, too.  My life is that sad.  I'll probably have diarrhea later.

But it was worth it.