Hullo World!

This is my zillionth attempt at a blog. We'll see how it goes.

The point of this one is to try to keep me on track with my writing. It's NaNoWriMo, which is generally a great time to get into the creative spirit. There's a lot of available support for writers out there, this month, even if you're not participating.

As an added bonus, with the success of so many participants actually completing their novels - even if they never publish - it sounds a lot less crazy to say you're working on a novel when November rolls around. Letting people know you can't participate in a specific social function the other eleven months of the year because you have to go home and write is met with about the same reaction as telling them that you politely decline due to a prior engagement extinguishing cigarettes on your forearms. November, however, is just "that nanowrimo thing" and slips under people's radar as some kind of endeavor to make an actual career stringing words together.

But that's the career I'm after. I don't think I'll get rich and famous doing it, but I have become convinced that I can at least make as much as I do now at my Nine-to-Five (or, more accurately, midnight-to-nine) and that's good enough for me.

The really tricky part is actually finishing things. The publishing world is set up to sound very intimidating, and from everything I've read it lives up to that hype. You can't even get to that, though, before you have actual content. So here I am, trying to make sure I keep the momentum up. The more words I get out, the more that will come. It's a bit like when you're running. You can't just stop suddenly after a marathon or a sprint. You have to keep moving, keep walking around, otherwise your muscles go all wobbly and useless. I figure it's the same with writing. In between bursts of productive, creative output, I hope to come over here and dump some of the more distracting aspects of what's in my head so I can get back to the real thing.

And it's certainly less of a time sink than Facebook.

A distraction from the distractions, to trick my brain into thinking I'm procrastinating when I'm actually on task. It'll either work splendidly, or this will be quickly abandoned just like the other seventhousandandsixtyfour blogs I've started and stopped since before the mighty livejournal roamed the earth with its prehistoric kin.

In any case, I'm sick of not trying. Perhaps this will work and perhaps it won't. Either way, giving up before I've started just so I can tell myself I didn't actually give up is ludicrous.

Worse than that, it's boring.