The Shape of Today

Tick, tick, tick...

Okay, WDC, you keep reminding me to update my blog so here I go.

I won't go into details about what the last entry's "athletic temperature gauge" snowballed into...let's just say it was nerve-wracking, aggravating, and expensive. However, it is now resolved and I have a new mechanic who is both reasonably priced and honest, so there's that.

On to business: NaNoWriMo! After some debate I've decided to take another crack at it this year...with a different work and with some better preparation this time. I've started piecing together the "time travel" novel idea I was kicking around and have even started a Scrivener project on it. Also "declared myself" on the NaNoWriMo site. My internal writer had been somewhat muted of late, but I notice now she's jumping around and yelling ideas at me again. Best to strike while the iron is hot!

It's clear to me that I'm never going to magically have the time I want to write, so I'll just have to make my own time if I'm serious about it. Funny how time seems to be the theme of this particular post, but it's true what Gandalf tells Frodo at the beginning of LotR: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

And I need to stop wasting mine. I know what needs doing.