just minishorts.

“On the first day of Nano, my novel said to me,
Get off your asssssss…..”

It looks like my Nanowrimo effort is off to a slow start. I managed less than a thousand words yesterday. Well, it was actually very much less than 1000. More like 500. Let’s see what my excuse was. Aha! Yesterday was Deepavali and I had people to visit.

I woke up late in the morning coz it was a holiday. Then went for brunch and shopping.

Came back, had a quick shower changed and I was ready to go out again.

An Indian friend of mine held an Open House and so, Hot babe and I went over in the afternoon. I couldn’t stop eating the fantastic mutton dalca. And then there was the mutton curry that was simply delightful. Hot damn! I love mutton. I don’t know what it is with goats, but they produce really good stuff.

Do you know how many ways there are in using a goat? Never mind. Don’t answer that question.

Do you know the top three reasons why people go to Open Houses? The answer is “Food, food, and food”, in that particular order.

When I came back home after feeding my face silly, I remembered that I was supposed to work on my Nanowrimo novel. But I was feeling kinda drowsy from all the mutton that I unabashedly consumed, so I decided to take a nap. Woke up at around dinner time, but was still too stuffed to eat dinner.

Dad asked me why I wasn’t eating, and I told him to blame it on the goat.

I had learned early in life that whenever things go wrong, it is almost always the goat’s fault.

Watched TV for a while at night, totally zonked out, and then remembered that a great Nanowrimo novel was waiting to be written. Hence, I typed my opening line:

“It was a dark and stormy night.”

Good eh? Except that my story did not start on a dark and stormy night. So I edited it out.

Wah lau eh. I typed something and I edited something! I was getting somewhere! That is exactly the kind of exciting shit that we kickass authors do.

I carried on typing. By the time I decided that it was time for bed, I had managed five hundred words. Yeeeee haaaaaa! Of course, Minishorts had done 2800 words. Another Nanoer, Eyeris, left a comment in my blog that he managed 3672 words. Geng chau, man! These horses are off to a flying start. Well, against that kind of peer writing pressure, my 500 words don’t look like much.

But, hey, I am not worried because I have a secret weapon.

It is called DA LAST MINUTE.

Without that LAST MINUTE, you know that nothing ever gets done in this country! But still, I will have to find a way to increase my speed today.

I have no idea what I'm doing in the office.

See, most people would have taken the day off, and I did not, obviously. (Obviously too, I'm one of those lousy employees who blog at work). Now let me put it this way, I came because I'm supposed to be rushing for a deadline that was supposed to be at 9 a.m., which I then pushed to about noon.

I've a problem with that deadline. Obviously I was supposed to be working on it yesterday, but you know how long holidays are… the bf's visiting relatives came to KL and we had 'duties' to take on. Dinners, long chats, the long wait for the washroom, etc…it all took up about 1/2 the day! Earlier I was at 'work', giving the SPM candidate a few last exercises in cloze passages (surprisingly students are pretty weak in that). While I promised myself to work on the script (the script!) I ended up doing about 2800 words for the NaNoWriMo (that's the prologue and Chapter 1).

Speaking of NaNo, I've shifted the plot (yet again!)… I'll be updating the other blog later today… but well, I just had to come in before Viewtru drops by whee… (let's hope that's soon).

I so don't feel like working today! What are deadlines? Deadlines? I seriously doubt that people will bother if I don't catch the deadline today.