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See?
I always come back.

(Which holds extremely true since I started this entry on the 4th of February and am just now completing it on the 18th.)

Was called in to work today and figured it'd be perfect for me to write since I'd be alone. I can always read or write more effectively when I'm isolated. I think my main distraction is video games, primarily because I have so many that I need to complete.
What games, you ask?

 Let's see... off the top of my head...:
Tales of Graces F (PS3)
Tales of Vesperia (XBox 360)
Tales of the Abyss (Nintendo 3DS)
Resonance of Fate (PS3)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii)
Ni No Kuni (PS3)
Breath of Fire IV (PSP)
The Last Story (Wii)
*Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (XBox 360)

...there may be more. In any case, most are RPGs (XCOM is more Strategy/Tactical) and I've got hours upon hours to play until completion. Part of me feels like, in a sense, video games are my 'books'.
And I guess I use that term loosely since I'm reading actual books too.
That list includes:
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Before I Go To Sleep (S. J. Watson)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (Chuck Klosterman)
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
If You Want to Write (Brenda Ueland)
After Dark (Haruki Murakami)

And there are a couple more beyond those but I'm sure you get the idea.
I'm busy.
If anything, I need some kind of schedule to manage the two so I can do them equally. Lately, I just read at work (we have a LOT of down time) and play games while at home. Perhaps when I've shortened the lists, I can focus on writing more. I say it time and time again but in the office of my mind, I haven't cut funding to that section and I don't intend to. I guess you could say it's in its R&D phase right now. Perhaps that's what I'll devote this year to-- completion of my lists and, hopefully toward the end of the year, ACTIVELY participating in NaNoWriMo.
Fingers crossed.






(* = This is gonna be a tough one to finish because I've already made up my mind about how much I don't like. Then again, part of me wants to see how the shit show ends, so...)