The Meme-Mandated, Semi-Regularly-Updated, Occasionally Coherent Thoughts of G.M. Skarka
Contentless Update
Taken from Elissa Carey’s Livejournal, a personality quiz to determine what Sci-Fi/Fantasy character I most match up with:
OK, I’m pretty happy with that.
And, from a link on Nicole Lindroos’ site, examining my site through Gematria tells me:
Remember: 26% evil is 74% good.
National Novel Writing Month(NaNoWriMo to the cool kids) is coming round again, as of November 1. The goal, as in previous years, is to write a 50,000 word “novel” (although that’s admittedly a bit thin for a novel) in 30 days.
Last year, I didn’t succeed….although I did get a good start on a novel that I’ve been working off-and-on ever since.
This year, I’ll end up writing much more than 50K in the month of November, but that’ll be for the paying jobs–I’ve got a couple of deadlines in November. So, while I don’t think I’ll be getting a novel finished, I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo anyway–using it as a convenient excuse to continue work on the novel, and maybe get another one started (perhaps with a partner– something I’ve wanted to try for a while).
I’m sitting here at my desk, smirking at the realization that I just had: that being a full-time writer often means not having the time to write everything that you want to write.
There are worse problems to have, I’m sure.
Things Piratical
The folks over at No Quarter Given, the Golden Age of Piracy enthusiast and re-enactor magazine, have opened up an online forum for things piratical, The Pyracy Pub. Discussions abound of films, literature, history, games and pirate-themed living history events and such. If you’re a buccaneer at heart, go on in and check out the Pub. I’ll be the one seated by the fire, bellowing for more rum while pounding the table with my cutlass.
Oh…and for the musically-minded pirate, here’s a link to The Jolly Rogers, a fine group of lads (one of whom I went to high school with) who sing shanties and such at various festivals in the midwestern US. The site has full mp3s of some of their songs, so check them out (and, if I can make a recommendation, PIRATE’S GOLD, a CD which collects the best of their old recordings, is an excellent purchase).
Anyway–that’s it for today. I’m working on stuff for BUCCANEERS & BOKOR, so my mind is filled with salt spray and cannon-fire.
Yarr, etc.,