Slow Progress

Seems like a long time since I've been around here. Finishing school, moving home, pretending to find a job, and all the rest.

But I have been doing some writing, and the novel-from-hell is all the way up to 60k words. (The fact that my schedule says I should hit 80k today is another matter entirely). For this whole week, I've really been in a writing mood, and have been consistently putting out at least 5k a day, which is good output for me. Yesterday, we were futzing around with trying to get wireless on my laptop (a success, I might add), and by the time that got sorted out, I was too emotionally exhausted to do any writing. Any new task tends, in my family, to be rather emotionally involved, even something as fairly straightforward as connecting a laptop to a wireless network. Today, I was wondering about whether I was going to get my phone interview for a job I really want, and that made me too tense to be able to write. As I now know the interview will be tomorrow, that means I'll be tense for most of tomorrow, thus giving me the excuse to not write tomorrow. I need to find somewhere to live in the city if I'm going to work there (the 1.5 hour commute really gets to me), I need to actually GET a job, and there's the fiddly matter of having to entirely re-write a paper for one of my classes because my professor rejected it as "not relevant". Boo sucks to him.

This gets to the point that I'm trying to make. I'm so good at coming up with reasons not to write when I'm not in a kickass-writing mood, which is most of the time. It's a bad habit of mine, and one that I really need to overcome. After I write this blog post, the goal is to sit down and punch out at least another 5k. I think I can more or less scrap the idea of finishing the damn thing this weekend, but we'll see where I'm at on Sunday before we make any decision on that.

Also, I'm thinking about doing scriptfrenzy. It's not anything like I've ever done before, but I think it might be fun. Still not decided on that, though, or whether I'm going to shoot off to one of the other two projects that are sitting on my laptop, waiting for my attention. But number one priority is finishing the novel-from-hell, and then writing the paper. (The worst thing about the paper is that it has no set due date, in my prof's words, "Just sometime before you graduate"). But I do need to write it, because that Incomplete on my transcript sucks.

But, off to write. Damn.