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Please don't.
Yeah, this was clever 'n shit back in 1999 or something when the Internet was still shiny and clean and everybody thought it was cool when you could convince a whole bunch of people to do random stuff just because they could. But after several years of spending each November reading bloggers alternately whining about not writing enough and crowing about their hopeless logorrhea, I think it's done. Seriously. Think of the children.
Not everyone has the Great American Novel hiding deep inside their soul, waiting to be set free. Though these days I am cursed with terminal writer's block, I have done a fair amount of writing in my life, and long ago I came to terms with the honest assessment that I was not cut out to write novels. So I am not saying this out of some secretly-harbored desire to be a novelist or some bitter resentment that you're a lemming with a word processor and I'm not. I am saying this in hopes of sparing you, me, and everyone else a month's worth of pointless effort when you could be doing something so much more worth your while like polishing your shoes or raking leaves.
Maybe you could use November to READ novels. Good ones. Or at least entertaining ones. Skip Dickens, though. He got paid by the word and it shows. Plus, he probably did write a couple of those in a month, and I wouldn't want you to get any ideas. Try "War And Peace". That wasn't dashed off in between watching YouTube clips and IM-ing with your cow-orkers, you can bet. Or "Gone With The Wind". Hell, the MOVIE took three years to make, so imagine how long it took Margaret Mitchell to write.
When you do finally sit down to write your novel, promise me you'll take longer than a month to do it. And promise me you won't post some running commentary about it on your blog every single day, especially when all you have to say is "I didn't write anything today". Be like President Bush and use The Internets and The Google for something useful, like downloading porn. At least that way you can masturbate in private and not in front of everybody.
(Here's the blog I swiped that image from. Very funny stuff and oh so true.)
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