My last post was all the way back in sunny February (since moving to L.A., all the months are sunny and more importantly, ice-free), and I’ve put a couple thousand miles on the freeways, started a new job, watched season three of Mad Men in three days, left the new job, started another job, rediscovered Castle Crashers, and grown more and more dissappointed with the final season of Lost. One of the things that has fallen by the wayside, obviously, is this blog. But now that I’m back in America, Hulu works! And, and, and there’s stuff to do outside my apartment like go to the zoo and the farmer’s market and the park because it’s not freezing outside. Alas, it’s time to step away from streaming television, put the Xbox controller down, and get back to work.
Here’s my big promise to the seven of you that read this blog consistently. I will be posting a new entry every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from now on. For every day I miss, I will donate three dollars to the Rape Crisis Center in my hometown, Daytona Beach, Florida. However, because I don’t want to celebrate with, “Yay! The Rape Crisis Center gets no money for its building renovations! I win!,” I’m hoping that if I post without missing a day for the next month (until May 12th, 2010), you my seven readers will donate something to the cause. I’ll set up one of those pay pal button thingies with the center so you know that the money isn’t going straight into my coffer.
Anyone have twelve or so ideas for posts? Anybody?
I’ve started contributing to two amazing websites out here in the interwebs. In alphabetical order they are…
All Things Fangirl
Pop Culture Nerd
Over at the Nerd, I’ll be writing about what promises to be a short but sweet season of Big Love and with the Fangirls, I’ll gush about games, comics, and my Nintendo DS.
These two sites are awesome. Read them. The end.
Between the daily emails from Go Daddy reminding me to renew my hosting and the acidic guilt that’s eating away at the bottom of my stomach, it was time to get back to posting. As someone who habitually reads blogs instead of dusting the apartment, driving for destinations unknown with the top down, or I don’t know, writing, I’ve read more than my fair share of “Sorry I haven’t posted in a while but my apartment was beset by locusts, brimstone, and a number of other plagues…” So here goes: Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I moved from Eastern Canada to Southern California, purchased my first car, wrote 50,000 words of a novel in a month, worked on two amazing issues of Sky Pirates of Neo Terra, finally beat Professor Layton and the Curious Village, flew to Florida to spend a nice long winter vacation with the family, parents, grandparents, school age siblings, and all, and read Under the Dome in less than a week. And rid my apartment of all those pesky locusts.
I also caught up on many movies I missed last year, and because it had been so long, I got to watch them on Dad’s finicky Blu-Ray. (Sony is kind of evil…) Now that I’m living in Los Angeles for the indefinite future, where movie theaters abound, avocados are almost always in season, and there are more opinions about the style, shape, tone, and quality of entertainment than there are cars on the road, I’m sure I will have plenty to write about in 2010. Hopefully, I haven’t lost all seventeen of you with my inconsiderate hiatus, but I will make it up to you in the twenty tweens!
Because writing compelling scripts is just too easy (I kid, I kid), I’m participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month for those unfamiliar with this insane endeavor. World wide, 100,000 masochists and dreamers attempt to pen a 50,000 word novel in a month. What appeals to me about this is that the point is to get the words on paper without editing, censoring, second guessing, or any rewriting whatsoever. Get to the end as quickly as possible and then see what you’ve got.
Script writing, for me anyway, is vastly different. I easily spend a month on a one page outline before writing actual pages. I just finished a half hour spec script, and I’m now sifting through premises and outlines for the next script. But between trying to figure out what project makes sense to tackle next, figuring out the logistics of buying a car and finding an apartment when I need the car to apartment hunt and I need the address for the car insurance to get the car, and recovering from the jet lag that accompanies a move from the Canadian Maritimes to the American Southwest, tackling a new script feels a tad overwhelming. While writing a 50,000 word novel doesn’t exactly sound easier, it seems the perfect thing to do to shake things up during these tumultuous times. I have no outline and no idea where it’s going, but I get to write a couple pages of prose a day instead of cutting prepositional phrases just to get an act break to happen on page 12 instead of page 13.
Either it will be incredibly rewarding, or I’ll get so frustrated that I happily dive into the next script. Or perhaps like the PhD student I know who’s participating in NaNoWriMo while working on her dissertation, I’ll try to do both at once. I like coffee.
