December...Busier Than November???

So, December is supposed to be the time of year when I have TIME to update, right? Well, between being sick and this being my first school vacation working full-time hours, it has been surprisingly hard to drag myself over to the blog to write up something.

Don't get me wrong, I like exercising my writerly brain-muscles and posting things for you to read, but there are just sooo many projects I would love to work on. For one, I have an idea for a mystical, magical movie prop in the vein of the Cthulhu mythos that lights up with a pulsing glow when you bring a key item close to the "mystic inscriptions" on the "rock." Trust me, it's way cool, and I promise you'll be among the first to know when/if I finish it. A coworker liked the idea enough to offer to help me with it, so I think it has a reasonable chance of being seen to completion.

In other news, it's becoming harder and harder to bring myself to work on the NaNo novel! It's true, there is something magical about November that inspires you to write. I was fortunate enough to meet up with the other people in our local group of WriMos on Monday. They're a wonderful group, and even if I didn't get much work done the conversation was still great (and I remembered to jot down a story idea that I thought of a long time ago...and just now remembered it...but guess what I found in an old notebook today: that same story idea! Only this version was slightly different, and when mixed with Monday's notes it came out to a really interesting mix of ideas... Ah, I'm rambling now, aren't I?).

Anywhoo, then my other project is trying to get back into the pen-pal program at my favorite steampunk website, Brass Goggles. Well, not a program per se, but semi-organized chaos. One pen-pal I'm writing to sort of in-character, so it would read more like two adventurers telling of adventures they are having (or are remembering). See, right there, I'm just a sucker for a good story.

Makes me miss the days of my play-by-email RPG I used to do with the LEGO community, but we must move on. College life just doesn't have room for a LEGO collection as big as mine was! It's all in storage, patiently awaiting the day when I or my descendants should choose to pull it out and begin model-building again...

So that's the rundown. I do feel a little bad that I don't have a finely-crafted article to put up here for you, but this is what you get when life happens.