Well its the end of NaNoWriMo and all I got to show for it is an incomplete 22 166 word manuscript, some horribly written shorts and a serious guilt-ridden conscience from handing deadlines in late…again. You’d think all that pressure would bop me hard enough against the head that I’d wake up and do some proper writing but Lieutenant Lazy and Professor Procrastinator won in the end. Worst super-heroes ever.
The Novel
Junk Yard Angel continues as normal. I’m half way through the novel and the plot as I see it in my head (and on my Whiteboard at work) is moving along steadily. I have all the main events plotted and ready for my characters to arrive at them and cause the mayhem and chaos they are supposed to. You know how characters can be.
Horribly Written Shorts
None of them will ever see the light of the Blog-0-sphere! They shall forever remain hidden from thine eyes. You can look forward to some proper stuff now, including the, hopefully, long awaited Auburn short that has been on hold for quite a while now.
Guilt Ridden Conscience
My editor is one gracious guy (not trying to score brownie points here, really) and he’s had to, unfortunately, endure my *procrastinative ways which is really not fair on him, his partner and the magazine. In short, if my articles are of sub-par standard he cannot publish them and because I’ve handed them in late, there is no time to fix them and therefore the magazine is short of articles. What’s worse? Because its a gaming magazine, it has to contend with many other online magazines and one cannot Review a game a month after everybody has if one is to remain at the top. So now I aim to finish any and all writing mid-way through the month and give him and his partner enough time to read, review and if need be, return what I’ve written so that I can improve it. This writing isn’t just about me.
And now a poem.
Lieutenant Lazy and Professor Procrastinator
Lieutenant Lazy drives me crazy,
Sitting in his lazyboy chair,
feet up in the air
doesn’t give a hoot, doesn’t even care
Everything he does leaves your head hazy
Professor Procrastinator
Oh don’t even get me started
The End
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* Procrastinative – I claim rights to this word
A-Scribe To Describe 
Oh no… He threw in the towel! And he let his editor down!
Quick, seize him! Tie him down to the typing machine and make sure he completes the work on time!
Ha! Thank you kind sir for Mob Justice, I may need to be tied to my chair during these December holidays.
Oh no! I was so looking forward to see what you were going to come up with for NaNoWriMo , and where it would take you.
Good luck for next time though.
I’ve been having significant trouble with Lieutenant Lazy too 🙂