Hiatus

Happy Halloween!

Been mildly busy with job-hunting (NO LUCK!) and a couple small projects, plus I've been ramping up for my November hiatus from blogging, also known as National Novel Writing Month.

I'm pretty excited to have the challenge, but as I've said before to various people- I really would much rather fail this month because it would mean that I had a job that took up all my time.

I try to make each day a chapter so there are easy breaks between days. I couldn't continue a thought after letting an unfinished chapter sit overnight. This year, I've got a brief chapter by chapter (title only) outline for a dramatic science-fiction novel. I found out last year at the NaNoWriMo(abbreviattion!) "wrap party," which was another story all together, that apparently they've changed the genre of the kind of science-fiction I like from science-fiction to Speculative Fiction.

I love sci-fi that takes place in the near future with robots and laser guns and space ships, but has to do with human problems and the like. Like Blade Runner. I guess that is now speculative fiction, rather than straigh up science fiction.

So is science fiction like Star Wars? or Star Trek? because if we're really dividing sci-fi up, I would place Star Trek into SCIENCE fiction, which means Star Wars is placed in the category of Totally Sweet Laser-sword Fiction.

Right, literature? Am I doing this right? Is that where we're going you snobby, Nathaniel Hawthorne loving, tricorder-festishizing, dildo?

I should save my razor sharp wit for the NOVEL I am about to write. See all you hiney-touchers in a month! Have a safe and happy halloween and a dangerous and sorrowful Dia de Los Muertos!