A Busy Mental Patient is a Boring Mental Patient

November 13, 2009 lordbuttercup
Tags: deadline, nanowrimo, procrastination, writing

The mental patient’s on a deadline. Well, the mental patient’s always on a deadline but today she actually started taking steps towards meeting the most urgent one. Say it with me, “That’s n-o fun.”

Often her flexible work schedule allows her to embarrass herself and anyone in her vicinity by fawning all over me, my comrade in the tabby mafia, and the big tuxedo cat who’s hell bent on letting me know who’s the alpha cat. Note to tuxedo: only one of us hasn’t been neutered yet. You might want to slow your roll.

Not only did she remember she has a work deadline, but today she got the crazy idea she might write a novel over the course of the next 18 days. Check out the source of this madness at http://www.nanowrimo.org/. Everyone else involved with this has two weeks on her.

When you’re dealing with someone who thinks she can write a cohesive narrative of 50,000 words in 18 days, you’re dealing with a mental patient.