Sunday, April 3, 2011

April's Goals

Fernando enjoys writing. This fact should be obvious to anyone who visits his weblog, since he certainly is not garnering fame, fortune, or any other real benefit besides self-satisfaction from maintaining it. The other fact is that Fernando is horrible at writing without a...let's call it a "cause." He suffers from distractions and procrastinations and all the other nasty little things that keep him from attaining wordcount goals and meaningful progress.

The good news is that Fernando is able to ignore these things when he feels an obligation looming overhead (and, no, making up his own obligation never works. Stupid self-psychology). Having a Tuesday-Thursday-Sunday schedule on his Chronicles, for instance, requires that he have something available for posting on those days so as to avoid the dreaded schedule slip that plagues so very many other projects on this great internet. Fans don't like schedule slip, and Fernando likes to believe he has fans out there. Somewhere.

Another way Fernando finds himself goaded to action is through random and nonrandom writing contests. Things like NaNoWriMo, which occurs every November with the goal of having participants hammer out 50,000 words of fictional prose. The month of April has a sister challenge named ScriptFrenzy.

The goal of this one is to write a 100-page screenplay before the end of the month. Fernando has never written a screenplay before, but it doesn't seem that difficult. Michael Scott once wrote a screenplay. Probably nothing will ever come of having written this screenplay, but that's alright. Writing is an analogy for sex in that you're bad at it unless you do it a lot, and often, and are willing to on occasion put up with headaches and frustration.

And that's Fernando's project at the moment. It is a fun little distraction and even if he does not "win" something of value, like knowledge of his limits or whatever, will have been gained. Fernando is ever an optimist.

Happy writing!

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