I probably should have mentioned I was on eBay Radio yesterday… Also, word count!

It occurred to me yesterday when I was publicizing the fact that I was going to be on eBay Radio again on Twitter, Facebook and The Whine Seller that I never post things like that here and that’s probably stupid of me. I guess my logic is that I’ll obviously just be talking about eBay and if you cared about what I have to say about eBay you’d be reading The Whine Seller but I should probably still cross post. How do you feel about it? If I’m doing some kind of internet radio, podcast or guest blog appearance that has nothing to do with writing, should I also mention it here? Understand that, no matter what blog I post it in, it will still show up after the fact in the weekly digests posts.

Anyway, today I rewrote the first chapter of Mistress Novel for what is easily the 500th time. At this point it’s like this:

• write a word
• stare at the word for 20 minutes
• delete the word again
• stare at that for 20 minutes
• delete entire paragraph
• weep

It’s productive… I guess. 😉

I’m embarrassingly behind on the yearly word count but I’m zen about it. I’ve got so much on my plate right now that as long as I’m successfully getting things done I feel like I’m winning.

My brother is having a similar month and he was telling me this anecdote: A co-worker came up to his desk and said, “Whoa! That’s your To Do List?” about the list on his desk that took up a full sheet a paper. Frazzled and overworked, my brother grabs the list and holds it up to the co-worker’s face demanding that they read the bottom. The last item on his To Do list was “See Other To Do List” and referred to a second entirely full sheet of paper. I feel his pain. I am notorious for the multiple sheet To Do list and I am also currently rocking two of them (though there are a few things checked off of both which is nice).

I’m a very bad NaNoWriMo blogger in that I haven’t said anything about Camp NaNoWriMo yet and I will get you a nice full post on that as soon as I get a chance. But because they really need beta testers I signed up for 50,000 word sessions for both July and August in the hopes that it would force me to get all caught up. (I’m cheating through and counting everything towards that count, not writing a new novel.) So far no such luck even with all the writing I’m doing for my class but we’ll see where I end up by the end of August. Having 100k by the end of the summer would be really nice but I also don’t want to work myself into an early grave so we’ll see.

As for the class? Great so far. Lots of work, more work then I thought it would be, but it’s forcing me to get a ton of writing and editing done which is sort of the point. Good stuff.

I worked from 7 am yesterday morning until 3 am this morning (A 20 hour day? Seriously? I didn’t math that out until just then. WTF is wrong with me, you guys?) so that I could get all my computer work done and take almost the entire day tomorrow to take all my “offline” work to the pool with me tomorrow where I shall work with little swim breaks every time I hit a work benchmark. I’m looking forward to it an absurd amount when you consider that I’ll still be working, just doing it outside. Still, I’m frickin’ pumped! I feel like summer is whipping by way too fast and little things like this make me feel like I’m slowing down the clock just a wee little bit.

Anyway, let me just lay the potato on you and then hit the hay…

He’s put on some weight! But he still isn’t past 50% so he’s a loser. 🙂