Happy Halloween, everyone!
To my fellow writers out there, happy almost National Novel Writing Month and National Blog Posting Month! If you need inspiration to get going on your Great American Novel or Super Prolific Blog, visit the websites above to join these organizations and make the committment to writing every.single.day for the next 30!!
I've decided that the whole writing a novel in 30 days thing is a bit out of my reach this year, but I am committing to blogging every day. I complain often about writer's block in terms of fiction, but in life and on my blog I usually can't shut up. Will NaBloPoMo defeat even me? Stay tuned, as this should get interesting . . .
In honor of NaBloPoMo, and in closing, here is a particularly apt exploration of "why to blog" from the New Yorker's Alex Ross:
"In the spring of 2004, I made the questionable decision to start a blog. I reserved a dot-com address, signed up for an Internet-for-dummies service called Typepad, and, to the delight of more than a dozen compulsively Googling insomniacs around the world, began adding dribs and drabs to the graphomaniac ocean of the Web. Like many people, I started blogging out of an urgent need to procrastinate. Yet a nagging sense of possibility also drew me in" (The New Yorker, October 22, 2007:78).
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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I'm going to attempt both. The novel and the blog. the latter being way easier. But I need the motivation. We should do a phone workshop of the excerpt you sent me. I've only read it once and will read it again this weekend. So I like what I read.
hey! thanks for being MY nablopomo-tattoo-blog friend! ha.
ok, my 8 tattoos (in chronological order):
1. a indian war horse head on my right shoulder blade ('cause i've always been in love with horses and native american history).
2. an outline (i might eventually get it colored in, though that was never my intention) of an abstract fairy on my left hip/belly area (just because...)
3. the chinese symbol for 'strength' on my lower back (it has to do with all i went through in high school)
4. the chinese symbol for 'spirit' on the inside of my right ankle
5. a blue tribal design on my lower back, below my 'strength' tattoo
6. the chinese symbol for 'shame' on the inside of my left ankle (it looks quite awesome with the other one on the other ankle)
7. the eye of horus, the egyptian symbol for 'protection' on my left wrist (loooooong story)
and 8. the letters SCBE on my right wrist (the first initials of my mom, me, my dad, and my brother, in the order in which we became a family)
aren't you glad you asked? lol
thanks for the compliment on my photography - it always means a lot to me when someone says something nice about my pictures as they're very important to me.
ew - two feet away from the ceiling? i'm not claustrophobic at all but that would severely test me on that. i suppose that's the price you pay for living in nyc (which i've always dreamt of, FYI).
whoosh. that was a buttload to write in just one comment. hopefully i didn't overload you with too much info...
when i have some time throughout my day, i'll be back to check out your blog...have a nice day!
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