Paul Boccaccio » excuses for poor behaviour http://www.paulboccaccio.com/blog I love writing, and books, and writing books. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 In which I attempt to explain myself, and then give up. http://www.paulboccaccio.com/blog/2009/03/01/in-which-i-attempt-to-explain-myself-and-then-give-up/ http://www.paulboccaccio.com/blog/2009/03/01/in-which-i-attempt-to-explain-myself-and-then-give-up/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:54:20 +0000 Paul http://www.paulboccaccio.com/blog/?p=261 I haven’t posted anything in a month besides Twitter digests, and I think we all know those don’t count. I’m 35 responses behind, at least, not counting music.

But I can explain all this away: I’ve been writing short stories for the past month. Mostly just one short story, actually.

“But how can that be?” you say. “Shouldn’t you be able to write a short story in one or two sittings? How could it possibly take you a month to write 15-20 pages? That’s less than one page per day. Are you that lazy?”

“Shut up,” I say. “Or I will drown you with tigers.”

I did write some more poems, so it wasn’t all mental thrashing, but still. A month per short story is silly and unprofessional. However: the deadline for that story is tomorrow, so here’s hoping I’ll be able to sort some of these posts out, and maybe respond to what I read more than once a month.

In other news, I’m writing the next story with a pen, in a notebook, where there is no frickity-frackity internet. Because I have all the self-discipline and focus of a chicken pecking rock salt on the freeway.

Also, I will work on my analogies. Because they are terrible. Like a… Never mind.

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