Projects

December 4th, 2007

I’m one of those sorts of people who has ideas of projects he’d like to do. Those ideas tend to mount up into a big pile and go not much further. Examples include “Write a blog”, “Write a book”, “Do a comic strip of some kind”, “Paint a picture” or a hundred other software related ideas, some of which even have empty code repositories sitting embarrassingly on the public internet.

Ok, so admitedly the blog writing one seems to sort of be working, but if I’m honest I kinda have to force myself sometimes.

The one which has been taking up most of my thoughts right now (They take it in turns) is the book writing one. I was somewhat inspired by Alex’s novel writing efforts for the recent NaNoWriMo event thing. It kinda made me think that if he can do it, then so can I. And the thing is, I’ve been toying with the same story idea for over three years, tinkering with it in my head yet never getting so far as putting a single word on paper.

Part of the trouble is that I’m a terrible one for meta-working. Working around work without actually doing the work itself. For example, the one time I did get close to starting a book I downloaded a piece of software for managing plots and piecing your story design and characters together. I got slightly absorbed into the software itself, tinkered for a while before getting bored and not touching it again. Net result: zero words written.

Ok, new project. My evening time is somewhat compromised by actual money-making work at the moment, but once that’s done (And Christmas too come to that) then I shall start my book. And I shall post progress reports on it as I go on this very blog, which will also be updated more frequently, honest. And the updates will be worth looking at on the new blog template I have in mind too…

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