Fifty-One

[captain_slinky]

It's been 51 minutes since I decided that I'm gonna try to write an article about being a thrifty geek and try to shop it around to the various industry magazines.

During my writing process I've cooked breakfast for Molly, made her a toga out of her Cabbage Patch Kids sheet, checked my e-mail 27 times and cooked myself a chicken sandwich with fries.

I've got two pages of false starts that just don't feel right.

I am a terrible, horrible FAILURE of a writer.

Because, y'know... it usually takes less than an hour to knock out a properly worded final draft of anything.

Comments

[aaronfowler.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

I don't know... that sounds like a productive 51 minutes to me (except for the writing part).

If you do hammer it out, I'd love to read it. We're down to one income and looking to buy our first house ($8000 free gov't dollars!) so we (I) need all the help we can get to reign in the geek spending.

-Aaron

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

That'd be awesome, thanks! I'll need some eyes on this :)

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Quick! you've got 8 minutes to finish the draft!

I'd offer to help, although my ways of being a thrifty geek involve an awful lot of self-denial. I am a good beta reader though, if you need someone to be an obnoxious editor for your first few drafts...