…and I still don’t really have anything to say. I have had a number of draft posts that never saw the light of day. So, instead of finishing them, I will give you a sum up of what they were, and then delete them.
My Christmas post. For the past few years, I posted about some other holiday that either fell in the ‘Happy Holidays’ umbrella or were one of the holidays absorbed into the ‘Christmas Season’. This year, it was going to be a cross between pointing out the flaws in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and showing how the top 20 xmas songs that we have all grown to feel are part of the season are really owned by individuals or companies. If SOPA passes, The War on Christmas might actually shift back to what it used to be (people complaining about the commercialization of a treasured religious holiday) from what it has become (people complaining because they have a huge commercial holiday that others don’t want a part of). And no, SOPA doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas, but if it passes, the internet could turn into a very different (and scary) place.
My Writings post. I have barely touched my NaNoWriMo project since November. Not for lack of effort, mind you. I think it is a combination of things. Mostly, NaNo is such a hurried and compressed writing method that it is easy to get burnt out on the novel. By the time it is over, I don’t want to look at the story. Add to that, the fact that I know a couple of sections are crap that are just going to be deleted the moment I start back. I was in a rush for word count, and let a couple of scenes go on in the wrong direction despite knowing better. I have been writing here and there, just not on the novel. I have written a couple of shorts revolving around Anne, have fleshed out details for the Daylight story, and jotted ideas down for way later stuff.
Also in the Writings post. Unrelated to my fantasy stuff, I have started a writing exercise I am calling Hollis. There is no plot, but that is kind of the point. The goal is to pick it up at random and write a scene that follows the previous scene chronologically (be it minutes or weeks later), with little to no plan as what is going to happen. I have zero expectations for the project, but it has been fun to see where the characters go on their own when I refuse to let myself think about it.
The Fitless post. I had started this mid-December, decided it would make more sense to be at the end of the month, the forgot about it. The sum up: I missed my end year goal by 5 lbs, only losing 20 lbs. Still happy, but not as happy as I would have been. I was going to do the BMR and body fat % as well, but I want to wait until I hit 230 so I can see where I would have been.
Last one I am mentioning, The Goals post. Ignoring all the other things I would like to think will happen, I have two that are leaping out at me, and they should be pretty obvious: more writing, less weight. By end year, I would like to have the first two novels in my fantasy series complete and ready for editing. I also want to lose 40 lbs. I was 235 at the beginning of the year, I am shooting for 195 by the end. I do have other goals, and I might flesh them out some here soon.
So there are my ‘I started to posts’ posts. I guess my head just wasn’t there to finish them.
