Adventures

For god's sake

I'm getting really tired of figuring out things that i don't want to do. I have spent the past twenty years doing it, and i am now figuring out that figuring out what i don't want to do is inclusive of itself.

Writing this novel for NaNoWriMo has turned out to be excruciatingly boring, so let's cross novelist off the list. It can go in the pile with PhD student, medical biller, race car driver, database manager, stonemason, nun, citizen of France, etc.

Bleh.

Brilliant

Don't ask me about the novel. Watch this TED Talk instead:

http://www.ted.com/talks/mathieu_lehanneur_demos_science_inspired_design.html

5519

11% done with 50% of the month left :)

Still super slow

I just hit 4277 words.

Kind of pathetic, but getting better?

I'm only up to 1473 words. Terrible. But, i have all kinds of excuses why i haven't been writing: sinus headaches, a sudden increase in teaching prep that i didn't anticipate, parenthood, etc.

On the bright side, i have remembered why i wanted to do this project in the first place and the topic for the novel i envisaged way back in August. I want to write a novelization of the Patarini movement in tenth-century Milan, the subject of my Masters dissertation. This means, of course, that i will have to quickly refresh my memory of the sequence of events and the crazy names of those involved (Guido, Ariald, Erlembald, Arnulf, etc.), but that seems like a worthy piece of procrastination.