Happy November. This marks the end of a long blog hiatus that I never really meant to do in the first place. It’s just one of those things where one missed day turns into two, which turns into a week… a month… and so on. I’m a creature of habit in many areas and this is one of them. If I get into the groove of daily updates, I can usually keep it going for a long while, but if I miss a few days, it’s easy to let things spiral out of control.

November marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. I’ve “competed” in this event every year from 2005-2008, with 2007 being the only year in which I did not achieve the 50,000 word goal. I’ve decided to forego the event this year because of two reasons. First, 50K words burns me out creatively for several months afterward. I’m a veritable writing desert until January. Second, I’ve been dealing with severe writers block over the past few months. I’ve had a difficult time putting out anything, let alone 50,000 consecutive words. In response, I’ve decided that perhaps this is a good time to pick this blog back up again. If I can’t write a novel, I might as well write something. Perhaps if I get back into the flow, my creative writing will follow.

In other news, I’ve been hooked on that stupid FarmVille game on Facebook. What can I say? I have an unnatural attraction to farming simulations. I remember playing SimFarm back in the day and, more recently, I’ve also played the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games that Nintendo so loves to pump out on a regular basis. I think there’s a suppressed part of my brain that truly wants to be a farmer… if it weren’t for the bugs. And rodents. And sun. And deadly farming equipment that can tear your legs off and turn your torso into hamburger.

That’s about it for now. I have a couple other topics to talk about, but I should probably save those for future posts. I don’t want to burn through all of my material in one day now, do I?