I have decided that the reason why I sometimes go so long in between blogs, is that I keep waiting for me to come up with something funny and entertaining to write about--or at least something interesting.
Then I realized that I haven't done that at all up to this point, so why start now?
I might as well write constantly in the inane and humdrum style and hope that inspiration strikes at some point.
Like maybe my next life.
So today's blog will not be funny or entertaining or interesting. It probably won't be inspirational either. Humdrum though, I can pretty much guarantee. And thanks to my spell check, I will probably have very few spelling errors.
So we have that going for us.
It is the last day of November and my Yahoo group 'Author's Incognito' (a group of LDS Writers) have started a Christmas story. Each day someone new writes another chapter in the story and we see how it turns out on Christmas.
My day is this coming Saturday. December 6th.
I was looking forward to it in a going-to-the-in-laws kind of way (not too horrible, but you know that at some point disaster could strike without warning..), but now after reading the first couple of chapters I'm looking forward to it more in the 'going-to-the-dentist-for-a-root-canal' type way. I've had time to think about what I've gotten myself into--adding a chapter to authors who are actually published, instead of authors such as myself who write a bunch and WISH they were published. And where I was sort of hoping for an easy, cliche filled icky-sweet Christmas story, we have already had one woman flying to China, her husband in a hospital in Boise, and nary a single elf or Christmas miracle in sight.
At this point I'd be happy for a leg lamp and someone with their eye shot out with a bb gun...
(it's a major award...)
The good news is that I am early enough in the rotation that the skilled writing of the other authors can salvage whatever damage I might do to the story on my day.
I was hoping to gain a tiny bit of assurance in this whole scheme that I have a bit of talent and am not just fooling myself into a sense of skill, so the bad news is that is pretty much not going to happen.
Oh, well.
Since it isn't my next life yet (the life I am really starting to look forward to, by the way--I'm thinking that I'm going to be pretty darn amazing in my next life--brilliant, talented, "really, really good looking" (you have to say that like Zoolander, or it loses it in the translation...) :) ), I do have all power on December 6th. I can pretty much take the story to new highs...like maybe Des Moines. Who needs Boise, right? I just got back from there and it isn't anything to write home about. Or write a Christmas story about...
I'm starting to think more and more about every Christmas cliche out there, and I'm fairly certain I could take this story to a whole new level of hair-pulling frustration for the other authors.
Okay. I wouldn't do that. Not intentionally anyway. But I would have a lot of fun thinking about doing just that.
Instead, I will take my 24 hour time frame for writing and do my very best for what is given to me and hope that what I end up writing just helps make the flow easier for the next author in line.
Darn, I'm too nice.
Maybe I'll write my own Christmas story this month. I'll start tomorrow and go every day if possible. That way I will leave the serious book alone and the other A.I. writers won't hate me.
Be forewarned...I'm also restricting my diet and exercising more this coming month, so for the first week I'm going to be horrifically cranky. It will probably show up in my story. Sugar/chocolate withdrawals will do that to me.
And please remember the disclaimer at the beginning of this post. Humdrum I guarantee. Everything else is a crap shoot.
3 comments:
Just so you know, I said it like Zoolnader before you even referenced it. How funny is that?!?
De, I think your blog is awesome. You always make me laugh. You may not think you're funny, but I do!
Good luck on your part of the AI Christmas story. I think my part is later this month. I feel the same way, "Well . . . If I REALLY have to!" I have a hard time continuing someone else's story. The last time I wrote on the AI Christmas story, I put in my two cents, then no one else added to it. It must have been pretty bad. :)
Aimee, you shouldn't tell people you read in the Zoolander voice...:) They might think you understand me, and that can't be good.
Danyelle, I am fairly certain you did a fine job on the AI Christmas story. I can't picture you doing otherwise. I think they will probably completely ignore my part too, though...maybe to make it more interesting you and I should see who can write on this year's AI story and get the least amount of response. Might add some excitement to the game. ;)
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