In My 'Skine

Well it has been two day short of a month and my first attempt at Nation Novel Writers Month is over. I am high on emotions and honestly in one of the best moods ever. I think if I got in any better of a mood people might think I was abusing psychotropics.

It has been a crazy month of ups and downs. There were the days when I just could not stop writing and would sit down at my keyboard and not move away for hours on end. On the other hand there were the days when I would beat myself in the head crazy trying to get a single comprehensive sentence to relieve itself from my begrudging finger tips.

The process of trying to write a book in a month is borderline insane. First of all it was the first time I have every written anything of length since the writing intensive classes in college. Most of those papers were more a regurgitation of boring lectures or notes pilfered form volumes of forgotten research… you thought I was going to say lore right… I did live in Baltimore for years. Ok so back to my recount of crafting a novel. Writing does take some diligence but it also take some creativity. I consider myself a very creative person. I have been doing music and graphics for years so with that creativity in my back pocket I made the ludicrous assumption that it must be relatively easy to make the leap to writer.  Let me be the first to explain all forms of creativity is not created equal.

Writing is a total different practice and will take a lot more training to hone the craft to become the level of guided scrivener I wish to become. I now realize I need more training and writing exercises to get to the promised land of being a published writer. I don’t want to write a book that just gets published to say I’m published I want to write a book that… warning cliche coming… Makes a Difference, no but really that is my dream. I wan people to buy my book as gifts for their friends who are having a bad day or really need a pick-up in life. It is not too much to ask for right. I do believe I can do whatever I really put my mind too except for date Scarlett Johansson; somehow, that one is not coming to fruition.

Ok so this year I am going to fall about 10,000 word more os less short of the 50,000 word required my NaNoWriMo but I do not feel as if i totally empirically failed. I got 40,000 more words down on my book project and that about 39,000 more than I had ever scribed before this month. I also realize my shortcomings as a writer and now have a baseline as to where to get supplement and reinforcements for my writing practice. I will be a publish writer and I want you guys to keep following me to see me through.

I am about to loose my mind, there are way too many people bitching about how bad today is going to be because it’s monday. All I can say to that is shut the fuck up. Monday has 24 hours in it they exact sam amount as Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Monday is the same as any other day of the week so why do so many people sit around and cry about how bad Monday is.

Some crazy fact’s about Monday’s Monday is the day most people commit suicide Monday is the day most people call in sick Monday is the day most couples break up

This is more bullshit programming. See the mind once again will make bad things happen the more you focus on them, the people above must have all been Lunedì haters. Somebody told you they hated Mondays when you were a child and you herd it repeatedly throughout you up bringing, you heard in in movie, television and song. The more you heard it the more it got ingrained in your head. Did you never once think to yourself Mondays are not that bad. Maybe these other fucktards are just pussies. It is just another day of the week after all.

I hate loading facebook these days and seeing the countless number of whiney cry babies going on about how hard it is to deal with Mondays. The night before last or even a few day before then somebody sat down at a computer, desk calendar or yes a Moleskine day planner and wrote out a nice list of things to do this Monday, Next Monday and for a few more Mondays to come. However; they did not get to wake up this Monday. Their preverbal ticket got punched yesterday, their number was up. Yet today there are some truly ungrateful bastard who decided to go online today and bitch heavily to whom ever would listen about their shitty dies Lunae.

In my own not so fucking humble opinion, if you have the resources to own a computer, smartphone, an Internet connection ann an education good enough to crafty the marvelous pieces of prose with a detailed account of how you would wish to have your “FML” emotional bullshit served on this glorious first work day of the Germanic calendar your life cannot possibly be all that bad. Again shut your pie-hole.

Many people are left in the pre modern ages because they don’t have access to the tools we take for granted. Many schools in the world have less than five book per classroom. All the students have to either share or take turns learning what we would consider two to three grade levels behind our western academic standards. May you should take some of your angst and sadness and write a play of wondrous depression and other sad stories like “Diablo Cody”. She took her sad days and crafted some of the best characters on television today. If you haven’t seen her work… stop complaining about you shitty day and Google her.

I thought I was the only sadistic bastard who hated people who hate the calendar “M”, until I posted this little number on a facebook status:

I was blown away by the positive responses I got from so many Happy Monday lovers. So many friends and facebookers came by to give their great insights on loving life no matter what day of the week.

I live by a very simple rule and that is nothing has any meaning other than the meaning we choose to give it. If we give the “Big M” a bad wrap by cursing it for sending us back to school and work then of course we will all have the worst days at either school or work. Now If you say Mondays are a new day of a new week and this is you weekly Mulligan or “Do Over” you’ll have a great day. I see Mondays as a day to start over fresh and new for a new week and new opportunities and projects. I call ‘em Kickstart Days or really brag about who did the most insane things to their livers over the weekend day at least.

Ok tomorrow is Tuesday and some of the aforementioned dipshits will be bitching about it too but if you try you got six more day to get next Monday right.