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[fiercebunny]

National Novel Writing Month. "Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing."

Is anybody doing NaNo this year? Or has tried it before? I'm kinda tempted... don't have any ideas though. I'm not getting anywhere with my writing, so it would be good exercise to try crapping out a novel in a month's time. (although possibly aneuryism inducing.)

In completely random news: the 24-hour Walmart in town has a really funky doughnut smell. I'm not sure how you can fuck up the smell of doughnuts, but they've managed it. It used to be a pleasant, baked goods kind of smell, but that was a long time ago. It now smells like a small village of doughnuts caught the pestilence and was wiped out and everyone ran away instead of burying their doughnut dead. Or, if you're into Lovecraft, it smells like primordial doughnut ooze that has morphed into some unnameable horror and lurks somewhere in the bakery, occassionally venturing out to eat a minimum wage employee.

In even more random news: today I found out that the new company running my call center will not be drug testing current employees. Or at least without good reason to. ^_^

Comments

[brennye.livejournal.com]

Which Wal-mart is that? I want to avoid if possible.

Not doing NaNoWriMo this year, because I think I have enough cookies on my plate as it is. *nods*

heh.. I still say we aught to loll around and moan and giggle and walk funny just to see what they'll do. *grins* You know our current management wouldn't even give a dam.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

It\'s the Walmart in Moore. It\'s particularly bad if you go at night when they\'re baking :P

[brennye.livejournal.com]

gotchya. heh.. I forgot to warn you about what the proxy does to contractions, huh? hate that.

Like the icon though.

[zhai.livejournal.com]

Not a fan of NaNo... I don't think forcing yourself to pound out crap is really that helpful, but it depends on what's blocking you, probably.

Giving yourself motivation to write is good, though. But I think it's more productive to pick something (contest, anthology, etc) off of Ralan.com with a reasonable deadline, figure out your idea, and commit to writing a submission for it.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

well, besides inherent laziness, the paranoia of writing crap probably is a major block for me. It might be a good idea to do something silly in the interest of mere productivity.