Hey, Miss J!

One of my absolute favorite hobbies is writing. Writing is time consuming, but it’s still enjoyable. I have my Nanowrimo 2013, 2015 and 2023 T-shirts from the national competition.

NanoWrimo challenge for November: Write 50,000 words in 30 days.

At one point, my dad asked what the prize was. I explained that you can purchase a placard and you can also purchase a T-shirt. He was alarmed to learn that Wrimo doesn’t just award you those items. Though, you might get a discount on the items that you inevitably end up buying.

They also provide you with a congratulatory certificate, in which you need to add your name and the title of what you wrote.

There are social groups that can meet for writing. Online and in person if I read it correctly.

I never do them anymore. Yet…

I tried an in-person writing group once, but was frightened off. And no, it was not from Nano.

Firstly, it wasn’t an easy area to get to and they met in a coffee shop.

At night.

We were supposed to bring some drafts to look over. Not much, maybe 5 pages. I was working on revisions for my novel, which is in the kindle store at current. I have given up on the story because there was so much happening in the background.

I would literally need to rebuild it from the ground up.

I won’t get into detail, but the next book I want to do is going to be a lot kinder to my tiny mind. Or should I say “books”? One is a children’s book, but the other one is sci-fi.

And at this group… Well…

One of the guys that came there gave us a brief draft to review. It was about bonobos, or at least the title suggested that.

… Which doesn’t seem bad except the draft went right into explicit sexual content.

Of the human kind.

Now, without warning someone does that. The organizer told him that it wasn’t bad, but they would have appreciated it had he warned us all in advance.

That made me decide to never come back again. I didn’t come to read someone’s handwritten hardcore porn, especially not from a first person perspective. I came to review something with some doggone substance.

Even if if was about someone clipping their fungus infected toenails, I would have felt less offended.

… And that children is how I learned that bonobos (the actual primates) will get intimate with anything that moves and often things that do not. Their sexual appetites are eerily similar to humans. To an extreme degree.

Next enjoyable hobby?

LEGOS.

~J. Lyst