average life

Okay, I know we’ve been through this before, but I have a new blog.  I promise to keep this one updated.  Honest to gosh.  I even have the second post already written and scheduled to go up on Sunday.

It will be a mixture of personal anecdotes and snarky essays about Mormonry, gayery, nerdery, and whatever ery I happen to be incensed about at the moment.

Can we just forget the whole “My Name is Not Cliff” incident?

Clint Martin’s Blog: http://www.clintmartin.net

You aired Family Guy enough to have it picked back up by Fox.  You aired Futurama over and over again to the point that they regularly release straight-to-DVD movies.  Now I’m asking you to work the same watch-it-over-and-over-until-we-demand-more magic with Pushing Daisies, one of the most original series to get canceled from TV in recent memory.  Oh, and help bring back Arrested Development while you are at it.

That is all.

NaNoWriMo, the “write a 50,000 word novel in a month people”, are insane.  But I did it anyway.  I did it because I used to write all my long form stuff like I write my short form stuff.  I obsessed over every line, focused on layout, and tried to make the first draft the final draft.  This is fine for a 500 word blog post, but a crappy technique when it comes to writing a novel.  I would get a page in, get discouraged over my lack of progress, and quit with a loathing of my “plot”.

NaNoWriMo’s goal is quantity over quality.  Just get it on the page.  Freed from the requirement of being “good”, words flowed out.  I also picked a genre, horror, that also allowed me to suck.  I mean, come on, it’s horror.  When I edit video, I am fully aware of the concept of the first draft.  The first draft is terrible.  Always.  It usually has no real resemblance to the final result.  Once I allowed myself to have a terrible first draft, writing became much easier.

I quit because I got tired of going to bed at 2am every night.  50,000 words boils down to 1,666 words a day.  Everyday.  Rain.  Shine.  Freelance Projects.  Blogs.  Pushing Daisies.  1,666 words.  It never stops.  So I quit.  I wasn’t emotionally invested enough in the plot to continue, but I don’t detest it.  Which is a first.

So, I’m looking for a new novel plot.  One that I want to write, now that I learned a few things more.  One that doesn’t have a 1,666 word a day requirement.  Help me out with picking a genre and I’ll even blog about my progress (just don’t expect 1,666 words a day, ’cause I’m not a machine).

How can you trust me, you say?  I’ve already quit once, you say?  I’m ingoring you, I say.

So, what genre should my novel have?

Note: Whatever genre I pick will likely be combined with comedy.  ‘Cause that’s how I role.

A regularly maintained website with entries organized in reverse chronological order is called a “blog”.

An individual entry on such a website is called a “post” (”entry” works as well).

Thereby, the statement, “I wrote a blog yesterday” is inaccurate unless, of course, you are talking about writing the entire site.

Please, spread the word (you can even use blog posts).

This month I am doing NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo (aside from being awkward to type) is National Novel Writing Month in which a bunch of lazy bums who are incapable of doing anything unless there is a pre-established structure sit down and pound out a horrible 50,000 word novel during the thirty days of November.

Mine is a horrible horror/suspense set in Atlanta and Dauphin Island, Alabama.  Let the literary bloodbath begin.