One of the hardest parts about being a writer for a living is that it makes writing for yourself seem like a job sometimes. One of the last things I really want to do after working all day on a storyboard is picking up my own fiction project and getting a few more scenes in before bed. It feels like I’m trying to squeeze blood from a rock. I’ve been struggling with that with NaNoWriMo these past couple weeks, and I haven’t had just a whole lot of success. I’m doing better than I have with previous NaNo participation, but not as well as I’d like to be.
I’ve got to write for work this weekend, so I don’t know how much of my own stuff I’m going to get done. I’m trying, but it’s hard. I should start using my short breaks from work to write a paragraph or two instead of blogging or reading the Internet or watching TV, but sometimes I get so focused on work that I need to break from it and do something completely different.
And I’m not even fighting for DVD and online media residuals!
My thoughts are with my friends on the production side of things who are being affected heavily by this writer’s strike. I support the writers, and I believe they have a right to have their contracts renegotiated fairly, but I hope that this gets resolved soon, and not just so I can keep watching new episodes of Heroes. I want my friends to have jobs, too. I’m not totally heartless!
Word Counts - Today: 0 | November: 0 | 2007: 0
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Host: A Novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Buccaneers (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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