No Plot, No Problem

I'm up too early. Daylight Savings (did you know the origins of
daylight savings time is for elite golfers, not farmers as is
popularly believed?) has not helped me this year, unless you consider
I have extra time for breakfast...

We're in hiring (and firing) mode again. Interviews, reference
checks, offers and trying to schedule training. We finally have
enough headsets to have contact with all employees on the floor (a
real plus if you are the service manager!) and yesterday I was in
mostly operations mode, calling in trouble tickets for all the stuff
we could think of that is broken or never worked right (like our
overhead music system which turns itself off every once in a while).
I feel most comfortable with operations and fixing stuff. HR is such
a gray area. But, perhaps, the most rewarding. You can really have a
positive influence on other people's lives.

NANOWRIMO has a party tonight that I am tempted to go to. NANOWRIMO
is National Novel Writing Month, an organization (and website
www.nanowrimo.org) to write 50,000 word novels in the month of
November. That's a lot of words. About 1,666 a day (a double-spaced
typed page is about 200 words). But it's meant to be fun and a
challenge. No time for editing and any preconceptions of plot,
character, etc., are discouraged. Just write ("throw up, then clean
up").

This is all based on a book called, "No Plot, No Problem," which is a
nice approach for us constipated writers.

I tried it a couple years ago and got about ten days into it and fell
hopelessly behind. But I did find that writing descriptions is an
easy way to write lots of words. Dialog is easy to write, but unless
you get some windbag it's not that productive... Action sequences
also are pretty good word generators.

I'll keep you posted.