MayNoWriMo - This time it's personal!

I need to do grocery shopping. Which means walking to the shops, shopping, walking home, getting ready for Uni, then walking back to the shops because that's where the bus stop is.

*sigh*

But I don't really want to carry groceries with me all day at Uni... Especially as I need to buy milk.

...

Yes, that wasn't writing related. But it's semi-Uni related, which seems to be all I get done nowadays.

LOL. Good point.

So yeah, I've done my shopping, and then remembered to ring up my old employer and tell them my new address.

Tax time is fast approaching, and I'll need some paperwork from them for when I file my taxes. So it's a good thing I remembered to tell them my new address!

Going to work on a short assignment now... It's just another reading assignment, due tomorrow, but I want to get it done now. If I leave it till after I get home tonight, I'll be all cranky and feel rushed and tired and stuff. So yeah, should probably do it now.

And argh, I'm so lazy. During this Uni course, I've been reading things on the bus to and from the campus, right? It's helped me keep up with workloads, because otherwise the time on the bus is just wasted. This last week, though, I haven't been bothered to read on the bus. I really should though...

So yeah, another Cliff ramble brought to you by Red Bull! (Seriously, I found a large Red Bull for cheaper than a medium Red Bull. I wasn't going to buy any, but damn that was a good deal!)

So I decided to go to the Uni early and work on the reading assignment without distractions.

Got to the Uni, and realised they had a used book sale going on. So I bought 2 really old books on the theory of fiction and drama for $2 each!

Like, they're so old, they have the plain single-colour covers, the only detail on the spine, not the covers, and that whole "the text is imprinted into the spine, instead of printed on" thing.

So happy with that. But it meant I only got half my assignment done. Gotta finish that tonight, then.

Reading assignment finished.

As per usual, there was 1 question where the answer wasn't clear from the reading. *sigh*

I keep getting 1 mark wrong in these reading assignments. They're not worth very much, but it might drag my overall score for the subject down ever so slightly... And I'm aiming for a good score, as you'd expect.

Going to play guitar now, then off to sleepland.

Got a Philosophy essay back today.

90%! Woo!

I'm celebrating with a coffee.

So I was playing guitar, loudly, home alone. Eventually another sound comes into my ears - the dog's barking. Then I hear someone yell, "Hello?"

Turns out it was the water guy, who I thought was coming tomorrow. Whoops.

So instead of getting in a good practice on the guitar, I spent 20 minutes talking to some random guy. *sigh* The best intentions...

So I played around with my effects pedals for a while. It sort of counts as a practice... I guess. I still think that I'm being held back by my amp, but I so shouldn't be buying a new one right now!

But I'm putting off reading, which means that I find myself wanting to do other things. Like play guitar. And work on my novels, which have sat stagnant for months.

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the novel I was editing last, well, it probably needs a complete rewrite or to be trunked or something...

I came to this conclusion because I find it hard to believe I'll catch people's attention with a hero who uses psychological brain trick stuff to kill the supervillain... Don't people want more action than that? And I don't know enough about the workings of the brain to make this believable.

For instance, my hero is up against an AI. The hero uses his eye, in a dream, to push an electron off a circuit in the AI's brain.

That just doesn't sound very plausible or interesting or whatever. And that's actually a major plot point!

*sigh* So I think I may have to start working on my WIPs, getting those 2 novels finished. They at least have a more actiony premise... Something a bit more marketable.

But then, I don't have the time for them right now. Which brings me back to putting off doing my readings.

I should read.

Good luck!

Wow, I just realised that I seemed to be spamming this thread yesterday... 6 posts in a row are mine. Whoops.

I guess I'm a little gung ho!

*tries to not post so much*

Good luck.

Outlines take me soooo long to do, but they're the only way I can write.

Good work!

Also, I LOVE Dr. Pepper! Most stores down here don't carry it, but a few do.

Yeah, a 2-litre bottle is better value than 2-litres worth of cans.

I've read 6 pages. The book is about 226 pages. *sigh*

But just this last book, then I can start working on my essays guilt-free. *serious face* Must read!

4 hours later, I'm up to page 69. I've taken breaks in-between sections, though.

Page 98.

Nearly halfway through the book now. I gave myself 3 days to read it, and I'm nearly halfway after day 1, so I like those odds.

Going to bed now. I almost fell asleep listening to music, so yeah, I should go to bed.