I just love this! I'm a Wrimo Rebel! No idea what I'm talking about? Just head on over to the NaNoWriMo dot ORG. I've been a Wrimo Rebel since my first year when I joined late and helped forge the Cheetah Club. hee hee. Still too cryptic? (like a Dan Brown novel?) OK, here's what it means. Honest, rule-abiding participants pledge to write a novel -- 50,000 fresh fictional words during the month of NOvember. Thus, NaNoWriMo -- National Novel Writing Month, AKA "30 days (and nights) of literary abandon!" (if you really want to know why someone would write so much so fast, then you'll have to go on over to the link and snoop around. Chris Baty, the founder, has been trying to explain that for years ;)
Back to the rebel concept. I loved the idea of thousands of (now over 100 thousand)folks all feverishly writing away at the same time, challenging each other to write more and commiserating with each other over the ecstasy and agony of creative writing. But I was already working on a novel. Why should I have to stop my project and start a new fresh novel just to join in the fun? Muahaha haha (evil laughter) I didn't. I found others, like me, that were "cheating" and we founded the NanoWrimo Cheetah's Club. We aren't without morals, us Cheetahs. No sir, Mr. Baty. We have principles. We still had to write new words and hopefully 50K of them. We just didn't start from scratch.
Anyway, this year I discovered a new NaNo segment -- the Rebels. There are poets, folks who want to journal 50K, write non-fiction (gasp!), create 'zines, and like me "the Finishers" who insist we must complete a work-in-progress. I like this crowd of pirates and artists -- I fit with the misfits. And best of all, one of the Rebels (Pax) made a badge just for us! digg it!
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I was going to tweet this, but I think I'll just post here. Makes for a great hiding place since no one ever reads this stuff. It is a web log (blog) for me, tho.
My AKS novel, officially copyrighted with certificate and on file in Wash DC as of December 2008, has a Chapter called "Showdown at the Sweat Lodge." I wrote that (mumble number) years ago. Not "just" a chapter, but the dénouement of my story! I want this recorded, dated, etc. so when the book comes out next spring, I can remind folks I had written and even copyrighted my Sweat Lodge "climax" years before the recent Sedona scandal. Especially, since Sedona also figures prominently in my story. Geeez. First the kid steals my "I see dead people" line, then "Contact" movie uses the VLA (another part of my story), now this! What next -- someone will start making movies from PKD short stories ;)
Actually, even funnier (odd or ha ha) is the 2012 rush, now.
Pinchbeck has published at least three 2012 prophecy novels fairly recently and a bio of the King of 2012. That honor goes to Jose Arguelles who published the Mayan Factor in 1987. I have copy signed to me from him, natch ;) I also have at least twenty other 2012 or Mayan prophecy books, including Mayan Cosmogenesis 2012 a gift several years ago from MayaGal, and the ever popular Surfers of the Zuvuya a gift long ago from MG.
My novel, (more on that below), deals prominently with 2012 and other End Time phenomena. So, maybe it's OK that the big blockbuster 2012 movie is coming out next month (November 2009.) John Cusack and Woody Harrelson star in it. Harrelson plays a hilarious Charlie Frost character , (mandatory click.) But, Baba Dhysana, my novel's Guru, is pretty darn good, also and wears a turbin. And, with my (c) 2008, I can say that aloud now!!
quite an OMEN -- that post at 2:28 pm. I have NO control over the time stamp on these comments. (can't even edit them!) So, yes, this could have been a blog entry, but as I said originally, who cares -- no one reads it (or comments, anyway.)
I still won't say the title here, but the NOVEL will be published Spring of 2010! It's officially copyrighted, so I can say these things that I've had to keep silent on for years! End Times, 2012, Life after Death, New Age themes, Sedona, "EOTWAWKI" (end of the world as we know it), Maitreya, and of course, Philip K Dick (pink beam and Valis) -- it's ALL IN THERE! yay!!!
nobody reads this? harrumph.
*mo storms off cryptocranium, muttering under her breath*
Tee Hee, sorry Mo!! yes, I know that you and Polvinksy (2 of my 3 followers) read regularly. Saying things like that is my way of 'throwing down the gauntlet' to get some reaction. It worked ;)
You must admit there is very little discussion that transpires here, despite tweeting the blog and posting a link on Nano. It remains quite obscure. That's OK, tho. No one responded to the important question posed awhile back -- "why blog?" A lurker, who must remain anonymous cause he's a high ranking government official, questions why anyone would post their thoughts publicly for "perfect strangers" to read. Any reactions? If so, let's post those under a new topic that I'll start tonight. Put on your thinking and writing caps!
I write in in oder to live. DP
Stop posting those crap links on my blog! I just deleted FOUR of them, drug ads or whatever they are. I see when you post. I'll have someone start tracing IP's next!
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