The Eighteenth Post: The One Where I Look At the Sword Hanging Over My Head and Say…

"Hurry up and drop, I have things to do."

I have to go back to work Monday, so it's going to be a 'pack in enough good times now before I find myself back up to my neck in frozen waste. No, I am not looking forward to coming back to work. So, I am trying to finish something and get it sent to Amazon.com. Hey, if that writer can write something and make $200,000, I can make a quarter of that easily. You may be asking 'What did you do the whole week?' Well, I wrote – finished a couple of chapter, now officially half way through, and worked on another blog entry about how I would improve certain movies. I also spent some time at the movies (Rise of the Planet of The Apes – good! Go see it.), went to the gym a couple of times, watched a couple of movies on my DVR (went from 85% to 59%). Went out to lunch (as previously documented) and just bummed around. Now, some of you might be saying 'So, you wasted a week' – and yes, you would be somewhat right. Also, let's keep in mind this: I spend a minimum of 40 hours a week under a lot of pressure to get 500 things done. For eight hours a day, I have to field calls that have crept through all the stop gap measures and punch me in the ear. So, during my vacation, if I feel like watching a movie, I watch a movie. If I feel like writing, I write. While I called it a working vacation, it is still a vacation.

Also in the news, I have tried B. Nektar Mead. Mead isn't really what I thought it would taste like. I was thing that it would be more of a honey flavor with some hints of vanilla and cinnamon (I ordered flavored mead – believe it or not, for research). Instead, I got something sweet that didn't have a honey taste, more like a sweet wine (yes, I know that mead is basically honey wine, but that's not my point). I don't mind it, but it took a quite a bit to get me a slight buzz… which I blame on the absinthe. 17% alcohol by volume for the mead versus 64% for the absinthe -- you be the judge. I am not going to drink anything tonight, since I am going to go to the gym later on tonight (God bless 24 Hour Fitness).

All in all, I had a good vacation, but soon it will be back to work until the first week in November, when I take off for my birthday week. I hope by then to have enough money to get my own personal birthday gift: a laptop from Alienware for gaming.

 

Good night, Gentle Reader. Until next we meet.

Sincerely,

Seething Apathy

 

 

I’ll Bet You Thought I Had Just Gone Up And Died!

But I haven't – I am just slow in everything this month… or two… or ten… but who's counting? Oh, right – you are.

Well – to prove to you that I am no slouch – I am gearing up for the longest month of my life. It's not a complaint, mind you – I'm looking forward to this. I use this some sort of motivation to see I can actually finish a novel (providing it's less than 50K… *snicker*) or at the very least meet a deadline – Douglas Adams notwithstanding. Sorry that this will be a small update, but I am also going to use part of this blog to chart the interest marathon that is Nanowrimo.

I do have a product to endorse – a free script formatting program called celtix. Works on different formats – comic book (of interest to me), screen format, TV and radio. Very easy to use, but a little intimidating if you're used to other programs (like me) until you get some trigger time as it were. For someone who's starting out and wants to have everything just so, then this is the program for you – at free, it's well worth looking into.

Not much else here as far as writer's news. I am working on the background for another graphic novel involving the Greek gods and some myths. When I have more information about it and some samples, I will of course throw it up here. I am working on a script – what it will be done for, I have no idea, but I might see if I can finish a season (or half season like Burn
Notice) and post it here for others to read. No sense in letting this just be me shooting my mouth off – I should actually try to display some talent here every now and then.

Well, that's all for now. Hope to hear from you all soon.

Witless Minions 4-eva, yo

A Tiny Little Woot For Me

1,000 consecutive words! A finished chapter! Before Midnight! That means seven and a half full hours of sleep! Wheee!

Hey – you celebrate your victories. I celebrate mine.

Witless and well rested minions 4evah, yo.