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Two quick things to mention: Melly's having a very interesting discussion on evil over on her blog today. Be sure to read the comment thread as well. Also, the results of the "Midnight Road" Contest are in. I didn't win, but I was stoked to see that my favourite entry won both the contest and the reader's choice award.

Anyhow, a very long day at work gave me ample time to come up with a solution to my motivation problem. I figured that there's absolutely no excuse - not in the entire world - that should prevent me from writing 1000 words in the space of a week. I know, that's a pitiful amount, but I'm taking baby steps here. It's more than I've been doing. I can write roughly 400-500 words in the space of an hour, where my concentration is devoted solely to writing. So, that means about two and a half hours of writing per week. If I can't do that, I might as well throw all of my notebooks into a bonfire as a sacrifice to the writing gods because, let's face it, only divine intervention could help me at that point.

So, starting this Monday, there will be another progress meter to make sure I'm keeping on top of my weekly goal. And if I fall behind, I grant everyone the permission to sign me up for spam emails, googlebomb "Cavan Terrill" so that it leads to the Wikipedia entry on "loser", email me viruses that cause my computer to constantly display "Start Writing, Bitch", or any other sort of malicious activity you can think of really hound me about it.

And, on a completely unrelated tangent: Alan Moore (the guy behing Watchmen and V for Vendetta), is getting some copyright hassles because of his books about Wendy (Peter Pan's Wendy) engaging in some naughtiness of the sexual variety.


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