Fast Fiction

Russ pointed me towards a link to one of my older posts (before Techorati alerted me) by on of my fellow nanovelists.

I’d comment there, but I’m not allowed, so I’ll post here instead.

Russ and I were just talking about that philosophy. I posted that almost three years ago (and have been living it for a full five) and in that time I’ve written three more novels, actually completed the marathon (and will probably do it again next spring), became a volunteer whale watch naturalist, started drinking and swearing, incessantly documented my life in photos and have traveled more to explore my passions.

In that time I haven’t updated the “list” of things to do in my life ... so it’s high time I did.

Happily my attitude about NaNo hasn’t changed: Lower your expectations, broaden your horizons. Life’s too short to keep talking yourself out of it. It goes for most other things in my life: If you want to do something, stop listing the things in your way and just do it. You wanna run, start running. Worry about distances later, worry about shoes later. You wanna write, start writing. Worry about publishing and format later. Do it now and if you want to do it better, do it again.

Here’s my current list of things I want to do (not in any particular order):

1. Go to the All Candy Expo in Chicago, Il
2. See the following cetaceans: Dall’s Porpoise, Risso’s Dolphin and Sperm Whale
3. Finish the LA Marathon in less than 6 hours and 12 minutes.
4. Do some other marathon (the Avenue of the Giants one sounds cool)
5. Redraft at least one novel to the point that it could be submitted to a publisher
6. Submit a novel to a publisher
7. Invent a recipe for a malted rice krispies square
8. Make more candy
9. Go to Alaska
10. Document 1,000 candies. (I’m about 12% there on candyblog)