Smells Like Failure

The first day isn’t even done, and I’m already regretting participating in this years NaNoWriMo. I am so unprepared for this undertaking and I don’t like where its taking me. I’ve written barely 400 words and oh lord is it bleak. My story begins with a man waking up, realising he’s miserable, and deciding to set off on a journey to end the world.

BLEAK.

I don’t know if I’m just being hateful, or what. My Protagonist just told a bunch of birds that he’s going to sing the song that ends the world. I don’t know where this story is going, or what. I already know I’m not going to finish it. It has to be a false start.

Once again, BLEAK.

I’m going to stick with it for now, but I’ll probably call this a wash before the month is through. Maybe it’ll help me work through things, or something. Ugh.

What Have I Gotten Myself Into

I really don’t know why I did this, and I know I’m going to fail. I will be participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo. For those not in the know, NaNoWriMo refers to National Novel Writing Month, which usually falls in November of each year. It is a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days or less. I’m going into this blind. I don’t have any particular story, no characters, nothing. I will fail this. I know it, but you know what? I don’t care. I’m writing this for me, nobody else. It’ll be bad, but if I can do it, I’ll have something to be proud of.

This is actually the third time I’ve attempt to write a novel in my short 27 years of life. My first attempt was in High School, when I had planned to write a short Fantasy novel as a present for my father, based on a shared love of JRR Tolkien. I never got past the planning stages and got bogged down in the backstory of my characters. My second attempt was a few years ago, it was to be a collaboration with my buddy JD. I had wanted to go into it blind, and just write a chapter, hand it over to him, and have him react to it and so on and so forth. That failed miserably, and I know it was me who held it back. Once again I got hung up on the back story of the characters. This time, I’m going in with nothing, just an opening line.

I’m hoping that this for once doesn’t end up in failure.

The Problem With Having No Life

I’ve been having trouble finding what to write everyday simply because I have nothing to do, and nothing new to say. I’m broke, not going to school, and don’t have a social life, and not particularly interesting overall. This is a problem when you attempt to keep a daily blog. As I’ve nothing new to do, this has more or less become some sort of half-assed journal. I didn’t really think that would happen, but I guess it was inevitable.

On the brighter side of things, I’ll be starting a new part time job soon, I’m just waiting for the details to be confirmed. I’ll be working around 28 hours or less a week. Better than nothing, and it gets me out of the house which is a good thing.

Today, I spent the entire afternoon cleaning my house, something I’ve been unable to do for several weeks now, as I’ve had to wait for my back to make a full recovery. It was nice to do, mindless but nice. Apparently I let my house go a bit, so it was nice to air it out, wash some floors, deodorise some furniture and whatnot. I’m still not done, but I’ll finish it off over the next few days.

Update on my monthly video game challenge. I’m considering it a failure, I’ve just had not motivation to complete Eternal Darkness. It just never hooked me like I thought it would. I’ll still attempt to play it out by the 31st but don’t hold your breath. I still plan on playing through Costume Quest on Monday but if I do, it’ll be for me and nobody else. I’ll be starting the challenge afresh come November.

That’s Just Sad

This weekend I had the most fun I’ve had in a long, long time. Myself, my buddy JD, and my two nieces (10 years old and 13 years old) sat around playing videogames all day. Started off with Beatles Rock Band and Lego Rock Band, played some Mario Party 8, and ended off with Mario Kart Double Dash for the Gamecube. It was kind of sad that I had so much fun just goofing around with my nieces instead of going out and doing something.

A Tedious Post : Self-Improvement

As I will not be attending school this year and am currently unemployed, I’ve created this blog with the intention of improving myself and acquiring marketable skills. The goals I have for this blog for the remainder of 2011 are:

1. To post regularly from now until 1 January 2012,
2. Learn basic web design and graphic editing as a means to improve the look of the site,
3. Get people to actually read my blog, and…
4. Get out of this rut my life is currently in.

First, I will write a minimum of 200 words, twice a week, and have it uploaded to the my blog no later than 3pm.

Second, as you can see the current blog is as simple as it gets: No logo, no complicated backgrounds, just a single colour and text. Truthfully I like minimalist web design, but as I learn more about web design, I will slowly tweak the site to be more aesthetically appealing. But first I need a logo, and a better by line than what I currently got.

Third, I don’t know how I’ll get people to read this blog, but I’ll figure something out. Maybe I’ll actually open a Facebook and/or a Twitter account and try to get the word out. This doesn’t really concern me at this point as this is a personal project and I don’t really need validation from anyone else.

Lastly, if I can at least accomplish part of these goals, I’ll be able to finally get out of this rut. I’m tired of being bored.

Tune in next Tuesday for another exciting edition of RandyTheBlog. Have a good weekend!

Nothing Better to Do.

Starting this week, I will be posting twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday. I still haven’t determined what will be the content of the posts, but I’m sticking to that schedule even if it kills me. Hopefully once this blog starts rolling and I’ve gotten comfortable, I’ll post more often, but right now twice a week is more than enough.

I guess this is as good a time as any to announce this but JD and I have talking and we’ve concluded that The Slacker Chronicles is officially dead. This includes all versions of it that we came up with from a public access TV sitcom, a web series, a media news site/web-blog, and a short prose series. So I will no longer be posting to The Slacker Chronicles website, which isn’t that big of an issue since there has been nothing posted there since sometime last year. I may do a series of posts trying to describe the various iterations of TSC, but it was something of little note.

So what does that mean for Randy The Blog? Not much, other than now I’m free to write about video games here. I may even revive my monthly video game challenge.

Tune in Thursday for more from the exciting world of Randy at RandyTheBlog!

Too Much Time on My Hands

Hello World!

Since I will not be attending school for the next year and I'm currently unemployed, I need to do something with my time. I figure since the issue I was having with school seems to be a lack of motivation, and poor time management skills, it would be a good idea to begin blogging on a regular basis.

I have no idea what I will be writing about or how often I shall be writing. Initially, I intend to write something at least twice a week, more if I can maintain momentum.

This is actually my second attempt at a blog, the first one being a complete failure (http://theslackerchronicles.blogspot.com). I will probably be double posting between the two blogs when it is relevant. We'll just have to wait on see.

That is all.