I’m very nearly done with this whole time off thing. It seems ridiculous to take a month long break from doing something that you like to do. I’ve played Little Big Planet to death, I’ve read a few books, and now, there’s no other way around it, I’m downright bored. I want to be back in karate so much that I get excited like a little kid on Christmas morning, chest fit to burst, when I think about going back. I’m also ready to write again. It was nice, having a quiet week where I kept telling my brain, save it, buddy, I’ll get to it later, but it’s stopped being fun and transgressive, and just started being a bit of a bummer. So I’m going to pick up my current project on Tuesday and try to get the first draft done by the end of December.
I have a hunch you guys will be unsurprised if I tell you that things are going to be changing around here. I’ll be posting less, but I hope I’ll be posting better. I’m going to stick to using Twitter for my mundane, the majority of the links I find and my other quotidian. I’ll be using the blog to talk about writing for the most part. Yes, I’ll still occasionally post regrettable things whilst in the grip of rage (that can’t be helped), or do random posts about… stuff, but for the most part the frequency of my updatery is going to go down, but I hope the value of the content will go up. My plan is to stop using up my limited writing time to write a blog post simply because it’s been twenty-four hours since my last one. I’d much rather post about something I want to tell people about, and that I think folks might want to know. That time that I’m not spending here will probably be spent writing books, which is probably a good thing.
Further plans for this blog include a series of book specials for blog readers. The first event is going to be that one-to-one book giveaway I was talking about before. Ocelott, being a clever soul who has some experience with book events, came up with a solution to my problem of verifying books sold for the one to one book giveaway, hurray! That means I can run that the first week of December. And that means if you’re in Canada and you’re thinking about buying a copy of one of my books, try to wait. If you buy a book the first week of December, I’ll send a copy of the same book in your name to the library of your choice. So hang on to your hard earned bucks so that you can get your book and do a good turn for our underfunded libraries all at the same time.
One last item, and, apropos of nothing posted previously, I mentioned vac pots in a tweet and some of you were wondering what they are. Here you go:
Those are so damn steampunk…
Oh yeah? Check this out. The ultimate shot when it comes to vac pot porn http://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeegeek/4084772809/in/set-72157622670276180/
When I’m not on dial up… ugh