I just finished writing my novel for National Novel Writing Month and I almost cried when I was done.
Not so much out of how beautiful the prose was at the glorious denoumont or anything, but at the sheer amount of ungraceful determination and aggravation it took to write one hundred single spaced pages in 30 days.
To be more accurate- 22 days, three days off for a shoot, one day off for Thanksgiving and driving from LA to San Francisco with my girl, and one day off for…I don't know…I was probably blocked or something.
It's going to be a long road until I've finished revising it and the manuscript is in any place to show to anyone, but rest assured there will be much touting and shouting and well, maybe not too much rhyming and miming, thank god, but you'll hear about it I'm sure.
Oh yes, did I mention that I have a very full, very obnoxious beard? There's that. I hate it, but I said I was going to write a novel in a month and by god, I did it in 22 days. I also said I was going to grow a beard in a month and by god, I did that in like, 8 hours on November 1st. If I find any good pictures I'll post them.
Or you can come out and see my beard in action at my band, Townland's first gig. Saturday, the December 8th at 9PM. Check out our myspace page for details. Myspace.com/townland
The only other remaining item of business is the matter of my reward. I told myself that I was going to by a new television if I finished the novel…and now that I've done it, I guess I need to make good for myself, right? I'd kind of like a flat-panel HDTV, about 20" I guess. I know there are cheap flat panel LCDs that aren't HD, but that's my quandary- I don't really have any use for HD- no cable or network, no PS3 or HD DVD player, just a standard def DVD player and Playstation 2. But I'm thinking that if the world is changing to HD, I should stand up and change with it right? Write? Anyone?
I'm so tired.
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