We Were Born To Rage

I recently read a couple articles that I would suggest for anyone who feels like they've reached a slump in their life. I had been feeling that way lately when I stumbled across these articles and now the last two days I've been feeling extremely motivated.

First there is this Cracked.com article. I know, I know. Cracked, right? How can I find an article on a humor website to be a motivational tool? Well read it and find out.

The second article was referenced in the Cracked article above. It's an interesting idea that's lead to interesting discussions at work for me today and mirrors a general feeling I've been getting from life lately.

So for the last three months(minus two weeks at the beginning of November) my writing goal was 25,500 words by the end of December. Well we are four days away from the end of the year(depending on how you count the days) and I'm about 10,000 words short. I'm coming in at 15,890 as of tonight.

As this is incredibly sad and lame of me, I am making my New Years Resolution to have finished two novels by the end of 2013. Yes, that's right folks. I have declared that I will have two finished novels by the END OF 2013!!! You can hold me to it. I published it on the internet so it has to be true, right? Right? Guys... where are you going? Wait, answer my question before you go!

Christmas Bells

It's almost Christmas! Unfortunately I am not very excited about Christmas this year. It seems that every year it becomes a less big deal for me and this year I haven't felt the holiday spirit at all. Maybe it's because I have to work Christmas eve AND day. Which completely sucks. But I'll get holiday pay which will be nice. But still. Life gets a little less magical every year.
Wrote again today, as evidenced by a blog post because when do I ever post otherwise, and then I was looking at my writing tracker and I've only written SIX TIMES THIS MONTH. And it's the 23rd today. WTF Mike, WTF.
Happy Holidays y'all.

A Real Human Being, And A Real Hero

Got some more writing done today. about 1700 words so far today. Called in sick to work, not feeling great.
What do you do when you've lost you're hope? The glimmer of something better that keeps you from going crazy when it all gets almost to much. I've lost mine and I'm looking for another. It makes me feel physically ill to even think about life sometimes. Ugh.

Reservoir Cats

A couple things my friends.

First: My lovely wife is coming home today. Hurrah.

Second: Terry Pratchett is a genius. His books are incredible. Check out his work.

Third (Yeah I know. I said a couple): I'm watching Reservoir Dogs. Before that I watched Deathproof and Planet Terror. All excellent flicks. Say what you will about the man, Quentin Tarantino knows how to make a quality movie. Oooh and speaking of quality movies, I just saw Seven Psychopaths. That movie is HILARIOUS and surprisingly touching while still being horrifically violent. Interesting how they're able to combine the two.

Fourth: Started writing again.

Am I Born To Bleed

I could not remember what the bridges that connect you to the plane from the airport were called. Apparently they are "jet bridges" which is awesome because is sounds like Jeff Bridges. Yes. Most excellent.

Well once again I have resumed my attempts at writing. I've been kinda depressed lately, work is not going well and some other stuff in my life are getting me down. So I've been trying to do positive thinking. Which is POSITIVELY hard. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night!

My My My They Grow Up So Fast

Interesting phenomenon I've recently uncovered: I only use the right shift key. I tried switching to using both but it messed me up to much. Weird
I think if any of my books get published, people will be given a journal into how I've been feeling emotionally for the past x years. I have almost no filter to sort how I feel from how I make my characters feel.
Great for writing... right.

What Does It Really Mean To Get Nothing From Everyone

YES! I wrote 956 words today! I wasn't really sure where this scene was going and just started plugging away and the characters pretty much wrote it themselves. It's nice when you have developed characters enough that you can almost depend on them to act on their own in a situation and you can just write down what they did instead of trying to think up every word of dialogue on your own.

 Also, yes I know this sounds crazy. I am just writing down what made up people in my head are saying. That way lies insanity. But I think every good writer is a least a little crazy or unhinged. You have to be to do what we do. Pitting your future against the willingness or, as the case may be, non-willingness of random people to buy their crazy stories. Pushaash.

Oh I signed up for Pinterest! Most addicting social network yet! Facebook and Twitter have their places but friggin Pinterest... it's so... INFINITE. You can get lost in the eternity of peoples creativity and willingness to share their lives. Man. After I signed up I just started browsing for a few minutes and was then going to write until I looked at the clock and realized it had been a bloody HOUR AND A HALF!!! Man how the life flies by.

I could look at stuff like this all bloody day. And probably would if I didn't have to eat. And go to work. And sleep.