A Multitude of Impractical Ideas

Hello, 2009, and welcome.

I don't like doing year-end or year-beginning posts, but realized I should probably follow up on that announcement of "MyNoWriMo" I made at the beginning of the month.

As far as getting 50,000 words written on the WOP...do you hear that raucous laughter? Divide that number by five, and you'll be about right. Still, I feel good about it. I realized a couple of the major flaws that were blocking me on the novel, scrapped most of the 42,000 words I had begun with, changed a male character to female, changed a roommate to a sister, added some Filipino/Indian comfort food, and I think I may have the beginnings of a novel. More importantly, I am writing again, which makes me far more pleasant as a human being. Oh, and the pet chinchilla survived the cut, but the winnebago, so far, has not. It may come in later. The five or so pages of coma, however is gone gone gone, and good riddance to it. Now I'm aiming for 10k a week until it's done, but I'm afraid editing, upcoming shows, and other things may get in the way.

The snow is mostly gone, and all of my pretty, dangerous icicles have melted away.  They dripped their lives out quietly, and no one was impaled, though I believe the cats were hoping that just one would strike the jays that taunt them from outside the window.

A thought for the new year: if you received some of that precious spending money for [insert holiday of choice here], consider buying an Apex book, either for yourself or a friend.  We have some promotions going on right now (such as free stories with pre-orders of the steampunkalicious Convent of the Pure and the surreally beautiful Open Your Eyes) but mostly, well, Apex is a small company that sustains itself through book sales, so this is just a reminder to buy from the little guys whenever you can, be it Apex or any other independent publisher.

Happy New Year to all!