“C’mon, clock, hurry up!”

It just figures that laying my head down on the pillow a few hours earlier than usual would backfire. I was tired, couldn’t think of anything to do and wanted to see if there’d be anything worth buying online on Cyber Monday (or at least anything I’d think would be worth buying, ’cause there’s a ton of stuff that’ll be on sale really soon). Instead, I woke up on Sunday at 11:15pm.

That may have been a blessing in disguise since I neglected to write a blog entry today. There was something I wanted to write about and I’ll probably do it tomorrow, but as I was crawling into bed, I was too pooped to think about it. When I woke up and looked at the clock, my first thought was “Dammit…”, immediately followed by “Eek! What am I going to write for my blog entry?” Thankfully, that thought process didn’t take very long.

As a side note, I find it both sad and amusing that I mentioned 750words.com a few weeks ago as a way to motivate oneself to write every day. I’ve written something in here every day in November, but I have yet to visit the website this month. Part of that is due to my concern about writing 750 words—most (if not all) of my November blog entries have been shorter—and I wouldn’t want to sit in front of my computer thinking, “Okay, I’m done, now what? I’ve still got 400 words to go!” I’d rather be distracted with making sure the wording in here is absolutely perfect. In a way, it’s kinda depressing how meticulous I can be writing blog entries versus papers for school. Then again, I don’t need to worry about a grade on here. I can just pat myself on the back about the results. That may be the only appreciation I receive (I promise I’m not trying to milk you for compliments), but I think that’s good enough.

NaBloWriMo

I guess that “National Blog Writing Month” coincides with “National Novel Writing Month”, so I’m gonna give it a shot. (Last year, I found out about it too late and decided to write a blog entry every day in December instead.)

I suppose I could have tried working on a novel, but for those of you who have read my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that there’s no way I could put 50,000 words together into a single story. Some days, it feels like I’m lucky to get in a couple hundred without drifting too far from my original point. Maybe it’s because my mind is like a butterfly that can’t move in a straight line, then flutters across the street and gets splattered against a car’s windshield… you get the idea.

Anyway, I’ve put this challenge to myself and I’ve managed to keep going for the first two days. (Hell yeah!) Now that I think about it, it might have been worthwhile to mention this website to you all ahead of time in case you’re indulging in any kind of writing over the course of this month. I use it from time to time, but given how much fun I have writing long blog entries, 750words.com doesn’t always work. Sure, I can sit down and blow 750 words out of my ass in twenty minutes or so, but would that content be worthy of a blog post? Not likely.

So for those of you who have started this endeavor as well, solidarity! I hope we all do an excellent job this November.