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I’ll be completely off the net (indeed, off the grid) for the next week. See you when I get back.
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In the past couple of days, everyone I know (and a few total strangers) has slapped me upside the head, asking why I disappeared for weeks without warning. Here’s a partial excuse:
All our stuff, in the form of a bunch of Door-to-Door storage containers, showed up on July 1. It quickly became obvious that moving house and writing a first draft were not going to be compatible, so I dropped into full-time domestic responsibility for the month of July.
I don’t have a good excuse why I didn’t post an explanation earlier in the month. So, uh, sorry. Won’t happen again. Back to full-speed-ahead August 1.
Often it’s the insensitive oafs who just take something and start plodding forward, unaware of all the things that could go wrong.
—David Allen, Getting Things Done
Starting June 1, I will write a novel a month for a year and blog about the experience, with able assistance from illustrator and animator Mozhi.
I will start with a plot suggested by my three-year-old daughter, who told me a story one evening about a family of mechanically-inclined trolls who travel to our house each night in cars and buses, break in using wrenches, ladders and WD-40, and subject us to a series of complicated practical jokes.
The second plot is based upon a dream in which my long-estranged great uncle demands to meet me at a Pismo Beach-themed restaurant and hands over a fifty-year-old postcard in which the anonymous sender promises to kill him in exactly fifty years. This is the first I have heard of it. He seems to think I will be able to help.
In the third plot, the entire U.S. intelligence establishment is outsourced to a reality show.
My hope is that I may have absorbed some useful habits of mind from National Novel Writing Month, Getting Things Done, Agile software development and Harold Lloyd films. Failing that, I may have to fall back on my rich store of oafish insensitivity.
