Archive for October, 2008.

NaNoWriMo

Posted on October 25, 2008 by mkeasling

So, I’ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this year. If you’re not familiar, it’s a whole bunch of people with a common goal of each writing a novel of at least 50,000 words, from start to finish, in the month of November. The important thing, they say, is to get quantity, not quality. You can edit it in December. :-p

So, in doing the math, I realized I’d have to write about 2,000 words every day, in order to make it happen.

Then I realized that I had no idea how long it would take to write 2,000 words. So, I decided to find out. Here’s my 2,227-word short-story, that I wrote in just under 2 hours.


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Corollary Post

Posted on October 11, 2008 by mkeasling

I’m so grateful to have a dishwasher–load two is going in this morning. Yikes.

We used a LOT of damn dishes.

I never thought I’d be one of *those* drunks

Posted on October 11, 2008 by mkeasling

You know the ones, that wake up the next morning and say “How did THAT get there?” This morning I became one of them.

I woke up and started unloading my dishwasher and realized I completely forgot using SO MANY damn dishes.

What? It counts. Shut up.

friends don’t let friends use video cameras drunk.

Posted on October 03, 2008 by mkeasling