Nashville, TN: Despite a restless night of poor sleep (hate it), I began the first official full week of the year with a good start: meditation, NPR news updates, a 7 mile bike ride and now at a local coffee shop to meet a friend and get a bit of work done.
Work. Ok, there's a bit of a problem with work. It's not that I don't like to work -- I really enjoy my job and THRIVE on being busy; it's not that I have too much work to do -- I am very blessed & thankful to have time to come to coffee shops in the middle of the day; it's just that I get easily distracted -- as shown by me writing a blog about it when I should be working.
And besides my own blogging, there's tons of other distractions:
Facebook, for one (least I forget to update my status each day!), reading other people's blogs (especially random ones recommended by Google Reader - such as
Bridget Jones Has Nothing On Me,
Sweats In The City and
Love Cynicism. Am I THAT easily profiled!?) and now, as if those weren't enough, I have just been introduced to the Wovel.
A wovel is a web novel. There's an installment every Monday. At the end of each one, the reader votes on what happens next and the authors write the next chapter based on the number of votes. It's kind of like the
Choose Your Own Adventure series I read as a kid. Remember those? You read a few pages then you are faced to make a decision behalf of the character. Does he go into the dark, scary room (turn to page 27)? Does he turn around and run away (turn to page 65)? Somehow, my character tended to die a lot in the first round of choices, but the good news in CYOA books is that you always have a second chance!
So that's the basic concept, but on line and in novel form (versus 90 page and under soft cover book form). My favorite part about the new format is that the creator,
Victoria Blake, came up with the idea (and the name) with her friends and over a six-pack and a bag of Oreos. Sounds to me that this woman actually
gets it.
Shit! I gotta get back to work! Where did the time go!?
