Month: October 2006

“Go with the gut.”

The problem with that, when one is depressed, is that the gut is very busy giving very bad advice.

When I am depressed, my gut instinct is to run away or hide, one way or another.  Go to bed.  Don’t talk to anybody.  Disappear into food, TV or the intarwebs.  Avoid, avoid, avoid.

So it takes (a) chemical assistance along with (b) an extreme effort to do what actually needs to be done.  Whatever that is.

(I don’t know what prompted that train of thought, only that it came to me as I was cycling home, and that it felt like something that needed to be shared.)

I’m going to do NaNoWriMo again this year, and in a personal first, I’m not going to dedicate it to working on my long-suffering scifi novel.  I’m going to be true to the spirit of the thing and write something entirely new, starting on November 1, 2006 and ($DEITY willing) finishing on November 30.

Here’s the thing…I have no idea what I want to write about, or even what genre I want to write in.

What do you think I should do?  Suggestions for genre, plot, characters, etc. all welcome.
(FYI: I was a mystery buff as a teenager, enjoy most science fiction, read very little “literary fiction” but a LOT of nonfiction, and apparently have some sort of weird gift for writing high fantasy.)

A few minor improvements made over the last few days, mostly under the hood:

• Atom feed has been upgraded to 1.0.
• Atom feeds now available for full entries (let’s call it a wedding present for Meri) and comments.
• All three of those are auto-discoverable and linked from the “subscribe” page.
• I added a “more” page with some basic information about me & this site, and I fleshed out the comment policy.
• Fixed the template to display pages properly.

I think that’s it.