Today is the last day of the first six months of the year.

But whose counting?

It does seem like only a few short weeks ago that I was coming into the new year, full of confidence that I would work my butt to the tail bone, that this would be the year of accomplishment… And while I have done some things, others have been left by the wayside.

I’m talking, of course, about stickers.

Yes, you heard me – stickers. When was the last time you bought a cool sticker? huh? I know, we have all forgotten these amazing contributions to science and culture. I will make sure that by the end of the year I will buy more cool stickers.

On a less serious note, I’m also talking about my novel.

Again.

With two or three (or four) novels in various stages of planning, I thought that this year I could complete at least two. In early draft form, I mean, not totally completed – I’m not totally nuts. I figured I would spend the first half of the year working on the first novel and then edit it and polish it up, all shiny and new during the second half of the year while I began work on the second novel.

Alas, due to indecisiveness and procrastination (in almost equal parts), I am now half a year behind.

It’s not like I haven’t done anything this year, writing-related, I’ve written three short stories and done a bit of work on a semi-regularly updated thing called Doug of the Darkness. Which comes to about a month and a half worth of work, don’t you think?

A month and a half is pretty good considering it’s about a month worth more than last year and about six weeks more than any year before that.

Good or not, though. I can do a lot better.

I am planning now, to do that. I have decided on an end date – October 31st – To finish my first draft. Just in time to start a new project for NaNoWriMo. As I am planning to write about 80,000 words I will need to write 645 words per day. Sounds easy doesn’t it?

I want to put these up too, so all my readers here (ha!) can see how it’s going… Or not going. -

That’s it for now. I was going to put some other stuff here, but I really can’t be bothered at the moment. So I’ll throw down a few links of some cool stuff to check out that I’ve seen over the past few weeks.

This looks awesome, I’ve seen it around for a few weeks now and want. But alas, cannot afford. A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

Here’s a piece on it including pretty pictures.

An index of Lovecraft’s Work

A cute Soviet Winnie the Pooh cartoon

The princess Bride with Light Sabers

And I have this coming my way too. Looks Gory and fun.

Well, that’s it for now. I have to go and write 645 words…