So here I am on this squeaky-shiny first workday of 2011. Every year I fall into my chair on Jan. 3 or so, and every year I stare into space and piddle around for an hour before I can focus.
I'm at my place of paid employment, of course, but a successful workday should involve some fiction/memoir writing as well. To that end, I resurrected my NanoWrimo novel, which had to be abandoned halfway through when my father-in-law passed away suddenly. It's a pretty ridiculous novel, predictable and shamelessly derivative, and yet once you take a group of characters to 26,000 words, it's hard to cast them aside. So I zipped into work early (7:45 a.m.!) and spent the first hour reacquainting myself with this strange pack of goofballs, who are bouncing around their hapless land like billiard balls.
In other writing excitement, I'm casing Apple computers these days. I've almost settled on a 15" MacBook Pro. My current laptop is seven years old and barely wheezing along. I think a new computer will help me realize my 2011 Writing Resolution, which is — um — to actually Write.
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