600 words yesterday, 2100 today. It wasn’t quite the nose-to-grindstone weekend of writing I originally had planned. This morning I just couldn’t write. I tried, stared at the screen, listened to music, tried again, gave up and played City of Heroes, took a short nap, and finally I was able to write.
Bleah.
I may try to crank out another few hundred before I go to bed, but first I’ll be engaging in the traditional Sunday evening game sessions. Wish me luck on both counts, eh?
I’ve got a bit of a headache that’s centered just behind my right eyeball, so I’ll try to keep this brief.
The Incredibles is Pixar’s crowning theatrical work. Period.
Okay, I can expound on that just a little bit. For one thing, as was stated elsewhere (though I can’t remember exactly where right this minute), Spider-Man 2 is now officially the year’s second-best superhero movie. This movie’s got the whole meal deal: Drama, folks in funny outfits, several kinds of comedy, meaningful character interaction, clever ruses, action sequences that are both amusing and effective, snappy dialogue… yeah. It just doesn’t miss a beat.
So I can get this wrapped up with a minimum of muss and fuss, I’ll leave you with some bullet points.
That should cover it, though I’m sure I forgot some things…
In case you’re wondering, I have a perfectly good reason not to have written a single damned word on my NaNovel today. A very, perfectly, truly good reason. Yes.
You see, yesterday my beloved employers saw fit to replace my cranky, misbehaving old geekphone with, uh, this.
And, you know, I had to spend some quality time this morning doing very important things to get it up and running to my high standards of usefulness. That’s right!
So the fact that I installed this on my new phone has nothing to do with my lost NaNoWriMo productivity this morning. I categorically deny any and all reports that I spent three hours playing MIDI files from my old sound files collection and/or that I found on the web in search of spiffy new ringtones. I’m also most assuredly not desperate to find a non-crappy anime MIDI website. Not at all.
There’s nothing to see (or hear) here, move along now…
Yeah, these pictures pretty much sum up my feelings, too.
(Warning: Some profanity to be seen in the link to follow.)
UPDATE: New URL. Dunno why they dumped the old, easy-to-remember one. Ah well.
Okay, so I’ve only cranked out a few hundred words per day this past day or two. I can live with that. I’ve got a nice quiet weekend ahead during which I can get in all kinds of writing. My morale is still strong or at least as strong as it’s likely to get until I pass, oh, 40k or so.
Wish me luck. I just might need it.
(Sorry, but I’m not posting an excerpt this time. I’ve not written anything nearly clever enough to share in the last two days)
To say that I’m not thrilled about how things turned out would be an understatement. We’ve got four more years of smirking shrubbery to look forward to, and Oregon passed a measure that writes discrimination into the state constitution.
Color me underwhelmed.
My only real consolation is that very nearly half of everyone who voted is in the same boat I am right now. Misery loves company, wot?
