Saturday, November 10, 2001
The novel is coming along quite nicely, thank you very much. I have no idea what my characters are going to do or say for the next 15,000 words or so, but I'll figure it out. In the meantime, I need to pass this on to my friends and family. It's from Chris Baty, who started NaNoWriMo. " ... you need to go ahead and plunder all those treats you stockpiled in the Nano "training" period. Call in sick and sleep late. Demand backrubs from significant others. Whine until friends take you out to dinner. You are writing a novel for god's sake---it's the least they can do."
According to Chris, here's the plan for the rest of the month:
For now: Treats. Luxuries. Whining.
Next week: Easier.
Three weeks from now: Champagne.
Works for me.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2001
I forgot to take this quiz I found at Shell's yesterday to see if I'm a blogaholic. My score is 52/100 and this is what it means:
You are a dedicated weblogger. You post frequently because you enjoy weblogging a lot, yet you still manage to have a social life. You're the best kind of weblogger. Way to go!
Just what I thought it would be.
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Missing a day of blogging seems strange. I've gotten quite addicted. It's a good release for me, even if no one else finds anything I say interesting. But although I haven't been writing here, I have been writing. Boy, have I been writing! As I said a few days ago, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month. My current word count is 12,631 which means I'm 1/4 of the way there. That's just about where I wanted to be at this point. A couple thousand more words today and I should be pretty pleased with myself.
I've also started writing for The Weblog Review and I'm pretty excited about it. My first review was posted today, and I feel good about it. I think it's going to be fun. I should mention that I found out about The Weblog Review by reading Carrie's blog. She's a reviewer as well, and a damn fine one I might add.
I have to mention this as well. Vinnie is number two on Bloghop's top rated blogs. Way to go Vinnie! You rock!
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Monday, November 05, 2001
For anyone who doesn't know this already -- Hotmail sucks. I have several Hotmail accounts that I keep simply because I don't want some people who I met early on in my online experiences to know my "real" e-mail address. I don't totally want to lose contact with some of these people. Not that I'm still friendly with any of them, but I'd like to give them a place to contact me if they want/need to for any reason. (I know that's kinda weird, but that's me for ya.) The people I don't care about are already blocked. Anyway, I have a main hotmail account to use if, for some reason, my real e-mail isn't working. I check that once day. Then I have another account I check once every six weeks or so. That's the one where I get mail from people who I didn't care enough about to send a change of address (i.e. people who forward jokes but probably haven't even noticed I haven't been in Yahoo! chat in about a year.).
This account is also where I get spam. Lots of spam. Enough spam to choke a horse. (On a side note: I have 6 messages, less than 30k total in the inbox of the account I check once a day. A couple of times a week I get a "Your account size is too large" message from Hotmail. However, when I opened the other account today I had 935 messages but not one from Hotmail concerning the size of my account.) I usually just skim through the subject lines to see if there's something from someone I actually know, then hit "delete." But today I'm kind of getting a kick out of this stuff. I started laughing when I read "Find your wife here." Umm. Well, I don't think my husband would approve of that. There's also Naked ninja sex (I'm wondering if that's the teen-age turtle variety or regular Ninjas.); free sex (Thanks, but I get all the free sex I want.); GET HUGE TITS IN DAYS LADIES!, GET A 12" COCK IN DAYS! (I suppose they sent both just in case I decide to have a sex change operation soon. Ya know, covering all their bases. Smart move.); US Vixen Festival - Come Join The Fun! (I wonder if this is similar to the Holiday Festival of Lights.) This site will make you drool (Oh great. Then I'll have to wipe off the keyboard again.); I have to say this and get it off my chest (You just go ahead and talk girlfriend. I'm here for ya.); Hi John, Here is everything we talked about (Ya think I should write to Jasmine and tell her I'm not John? Naaaah!); Hi I am Wilma, and I have a dream (I have a dream, too, Wilma. No more spam!); Gosh your lucky! (I know. I know! Just look at all this fascinating reading material I have! And it's all free!!!); YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE THIS! (Then why are you sending it to meeeeeee?!?!?!?!?)
Enough procrastination. I'm going back to writing my novel. Only 42,000 words to go!
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