First things first: the winner of the "Stranger Than Fiction" contest is..
~j!
~j, your bad date story was truly horrifying, and you have my sympathy...and my ARC of Pure Blood. Email me at caitlinkittredge [at] gmail [dot] com with your address and I'll put your ARC in the mail.
Now, to the topic of the moment: I had a real funk yesterday, one where nothing got written because my brain took a vacation to Bermuda and forgot to take my writing with it. They happen, and the best I can hope for is to ride it out by doing non-writing stuff. You know the type...
- Alphabetize everything
- Color-code underwear drawer
- Dust knick-knacks. And brick-a-brack. And tzchotzchkes.
- Spend 20 minutes on Google looking up correct spelling of "tzchotzchkes"
- Watch 14 back-to-back episodes of Law & Order
- Learn French word for "alphabetize"
- Cook elaborate French dish
- Realize I don't even like French food
- Feed dish to cats
- Rush cats to pet hospital due to incorrect translation of recipe
- Weed garden for 10 minutes
- Spend 90 minutes recovering from heatstroke in lawn chair with sangria
- Hmm, that sangria is pretty good
- Wow, I never realize that Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood had such compelling storylines!
- Scrub bathroom obsessively in aftermath of sangria overdose
- Blog
And that's just the short list. I haven't even talked about organizing my pen collection or putting my comics in chronological order yet.
I'm really glad I have motivation again today.
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Hey, you're going to see THE DARK KNIGHT. Talk about motivation!
I'm a simple man. I just watch History Channel and History International. I've seen all of the shows dozens of times. But sometimes I just can't write, and that's how I "Funk out."
re: pen collection
I have to reorganize the pens on my desk from time to time, to make sure each of them gets an equal chance to be used.
But then, I'm entirely nuts.