wabbit's warren

If you create at all; if you've ever been flamed at all; go read this from Wil Wheaton. Now.

The tl;dr?

"This is an important thing to keep in mind, for all creative people in the universe: the very act of creating is courageous. Making art requires empathy and a willingness to be vulnerable and naked before the world. Doing these things on the Internet means you’re exposing yourself to the very best and the very worst our species has to offer. Just remember, when someone is being a terrible monstrous awful cruel human being: you made a thing, and they made a comment."

So, I didn't do NaNoWriMo this year. Instead, I tried my hand at picowrimo, a community where you set your own writing goals for the month. And it finally happened. I actually failed at a writing goal. That's new to me. I am one of those people who nearly always finishes what I say I will do. But frankly, that's if I have a goal imposed upon me by someone other than me. Goals I make for myself? Forget it. I change them to suit my whims and rarely actually do them. (I meant to do laundry today, honest!)

( That said, I didn't do too badly with pico. )

Nope. Not for me. Not this year. I'm out. I am not, however, out of writing in entirety in November (as if). And I'm not even giving up on the idea of having a writing goal for the month. After all, as someone on Twitter recently said to me, "Sleeping is for December," (not true, we all know December is for The X-Files, but whatever) so I'm in for a wee bit o' writing this month after all. I need a bit of a kick in the pants to write right now, as my life is all crazytown, so I'm doing picowrimo on the advice of the great and wonderful lolmac.

Since one sets one's own goals for Pico, I'm setting mine at 100 words a day for five days a week. This allows me leeway on weekends, when work takes up every bit of my time, and doesn't overwhelm me on days when I just don't have much in me. Now, anyone who has been around a while knows that I tend to be an overachiever when it comes to things like this (I "won" my first Nano on November 17. Yeah, it's like that.), so I'm sure you won't be surprised to know that I'm at just over 500 words today. That said, I'm counting that as both Nov 1 and Nov 2, because my sleep schedule makes my "days" a bit different than those on the calendar. I wrote 300 words last night, and 200 words today as far as my body is concerned. Therefore, we're golden. More to come! Expect a fic a day, as I did back in May 2008 (ah, Firefly, how you changed my life) and December 2007 (ah, SG-1, how truly beholden to you I am),  but there might be a few lapses here and there, as I have two non-fiction pieces to do this week that actually have a deadline. Love to all and write on, my friends. Write on.

WOW! I have just heard the most wonderful, squifferific, fantastic, super-duper, way too much for just a comment, lovely, supercalifragaliciousexpealidocious full-on grand mal squeezure-inducing news!

And to my friend lolmac , the great and powerful Beth, I say:



That is all I have to say.

But if you want to know more, go here.