people, i sat down to blog tonight, and el zippo came into my head. what's your topic, claire? i thought it, and then i felt exactly like i feel when i tell the computer to do something and a progress bar pops up and just sits there, not filling up at all, just stuck.
and that's when i decided i needed another reliable blogging topic besides our rpg adventures. there's no way i can blog as often as i want about rpg's -- for one thing, we don't play every day or anything like that, not nearly. and for another thing, right now we're getting back into akane's campaign, and she's blogging that herself.
and then a progress bar popped up in my head, with like, a crazy small amount of it filled. and it said ...
novel.
so i went back to the most recent chapter i wrote, chapter 11, and the date said ...
july 31, 2022.
yeeeeeek! that's four years!
and i read that post, and it was short. who writes a book with chapters that short? and the answer was ...
you, claire. all you've got to do is decide to do it.
longtime readers of this blog are now shaking their heads wisely or ruefully, thinking either, we've heard this before, but maybe this time she's really going to do it! or else just, yeah, yeah. we've heard this so many times before!
i'm going to be a smartapus about it this time, though. i'm not going to just jump in and write at it ... i'm going to review my own book. chapter by chapter!
easy peasy, right? every day, there's my topic right there. and i don't have to get any farther in the book while i'm reviewing, and i don't have to come up with anything earth-shaking or amazing, or even anything with a thesis sentence (which i totally suck at by the way). not even any worries about what each post is going to be titled! just, "review! love and realness, chapter ___."
reviewing will also let me remind myself what the heck was going on in this book, so when i get through all the chapter reviews, i'll be all set to move the story forward, right?
will this be another fail-y mcfailington effort like i've done so many other times?
tune in tomorrow and start to find out!
xoxo,
claire
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