Monthly Archives: October 2010

Going on 30

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My NaNoWriMo 2010 idea finally showed up, and not a moment too soon! It’s been one of those years where nothing really “grabs” me enough to feel like it will give me enough momentum to get through the entire month. You scoff, but when you’re writing 50,000 words in 30 days, you’d better darn well like your idea!

So what’s my idea? I’m using the theme of my year as a jumping off point. You know that big old 30 Before 30 list? Fun, right? Fun enough to be a novel? I think so. No, it’s not going to be about me– just another almost-30-year-old on a quest to have some awesome life experiences. Here’s the blurb and the cover. (What? NaNoWriMo hasn’t even started yet. I’m totally allowed to Photoshop procrastinate.)

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Good Ideas and Bad Ideas

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Good ideas:

1. Only doing the laundry every two weeks. It makes Robbie appreciate my contributions to our household chores more. And if I have to wear a pair of underwear twice, that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

2. Taking the first Monday of November off to work on my NaNoWriMo novel. This is an even better idea considering that as of Friday, I had not a single usable idea.

Bad ideas:

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The Return of the Weekend One-liners

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My favorite FAIL blog photo of the week

I was reading through a very, very old blog of mine the other night (trolling for NaNoWriMo plot ideas, but that’s neither here nor there– and, no, I don’t have a plot yet– gah!) and realized that my posts used to be funny. For real. They were pithy, funny, slice-of-life posts and I enjoyed re-reading them.

Theories on why my blog is no longer funny: (1) I write about Serious Writing Career stuff now; (2) I lost my ability to be funny; (3) my life is not really entertaining anymore; (4) I was never funny in the first place and I’m the only one who thinks my old blog was funny.

In any case, I’m bringing back a staple of the old blog, Weekend One-liners. Basically, it’s a collection of snippets from blogs and tweets that made me laugh this week. It’s more fun to laugh together, so of course, I’m sharing them here with you. Here’s the first week’s installment. Enjoy!

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