And obviously there's no one out there who is paralyzed re-writing the first sentence of the book they have in mind, so the whole exercise of shitty first drafts is clearly useless.

It's just...he had to have REALLY sat around thinking of reasons to be mad and then worked himslf into rageland.

I mean, I think it's a really neat writing exercise. I also think those people are Writers. Authors.

A whole mess of them may be shitty writers. Seriously, who cares?

I am so happy I finally got a space heater in my office this week.

This is on my list for next week. My office, which has no window, no heater, no ventilation and no actual light other than the floor lamp, is FREEZING. And lest people think I'm sad about my office (except for the temp which I am sad about), I LOVE My little closet because the one thing it does have which I desperately need is a DOOR.

Dude needs to chill. People who write are writers. NaNoWriMo is just an exercise in writing. Lots of writing is for the writer's sake alone .I don't think this is that much different.

A whole mess of them may be shitty writers. Seriously, who cares?

I think some people have this idea of success or talent as a zero sum game. If any one is doing what they do, or heavens forfend have any success at it, there's less...I dunno...writing for them to do.

Interesting post about Halloween and sexy costumes. [link]

You know, sometimes I need some kind of external motivation to get my ass in gear and get my job done-- some kind of short term, group pressure. Like the "time-dash" advocated by 43 Folders or the other mental tricks propounded by Neil Fiore and GTD. I guess I'm not a lawyer like those ones that work without structure!

Speaking of which, some days I love my job, like how I get to respond to total lunatics claiming I violated their constitutional rights.

That's like a few weeks ago at the bookstore, when we all got a big laugh out of the mom who went off on a manager about the fact that we had a book with the word "shit" in the title rather prominently displayed on a book at the front of the store. She apparently expected the manager to apologize and immediately remove it, but the manager didn't do either, other than say "I'm sorry you feel that way, but if I take it off the table for you, I'll have to remove a book for some other reason for another customer--where does it end?" She got in a snit and refused to shop with us anymore, and after she left, we all sort of shrugged our shoulders and thought good riddance.

You have to wonder why the difficult customers think that threatening to not shop at the store will make the store change their policy. If it's a recurrent problem, then they might revisit the policy, otherwise, fine, let them shop elsewhere!

I am totally cleaning out my inbox and my desk today, and it is AWESOME. I am so bad at deleting emails when they're no longer useful. Like, the email from Monday that says "Let's move the Tuesday meeting to 3, OK?" Still having that in my inbox a week from Friday is ridic!

He's homoriffic!

Just what I've been saying since "Inferno" aired!