Head on over to the results of the Search Term Challenge Round 2. The results are out. I didn’t win, Merrilee did. But then her entry was a powerful and well written entry. Not toooo surprised that she took the crown for the second time. I managed to get myself second place with my little entry Wooing Zadie. It was a good bit of fun. It’s good to kick out challenges like this every now and then. Thanks to everyone who voted for me!
And on the subject of writing, of course I didn’t write today. Nanowrimo is well and truly done for me at the moment. I’m still assessing what I want to do with my writing, but at the moment, I’m happy sort of coasting for now. I’m comfortable with coasting on neutral until I sort out what I want to do.
I guess when I think about it as the most basic levels writing to me is a creative outlet. If I’m not writing, I need something else to act as much creative outlet. Sometimes that’s programming, sometimes it’s writing interactive fiction that I have no hope of completing. As long as I’m creating, that’s me happy. For the bulk of the time though, the most effective way for me to get that creative outlet is writing.
So I’m not writing at the moment. But that’s ok with me for now. I know I’ll write again soon, just not at a Nanowrimo rate. Or even maybe a normal and good rate. Last count though, I had written around 170,000 words for the year to date. That’s still good.
More soon. For now, I’m gonna relax after a long days work.
I can’t remember how long I’ve been spying on one of our countries illustrious installations, but it’s a curious mix of wonder and voyeurism I guess. I’m talking about
It seems curious that today Wikipedia’s entry of the day is
History was one of my better subjects at school, so by the time the rather large glut of Elizabeth I films, series and all manner of things came out, it was all old hat to me. I could watch them for the costume and period drama, but I knew who was gonna get the chop and what was going to happen.
Well, I haven’t written since my last post. I just don’t have the heart, soul and drive to keep at my Nanowrimo effort, hence this not being a Nano post. Tear my Nano badge from my shirt and toss it in the dirt! Bah. Well, I managed SOCNOC this year. What went wrong with Nano?