NaNoWriMo word count for the night: 6,556

What my word count should be: 6,666

Satisfied? Hell yeah.

14 of the Manliest Things in The Universe

Look, we’re all men here on the Internet, right? Right! So let’s just get right down to the 14 manliest things in existence and call it a day. Cause that’s what men do… we get shit done!

By now you’re probably ready to give up. You’re past that first fine furious rapture when every character and idea is new and entertaining. You’re not yet at the momentous downhill slide to the end, when words and images tumble out of your head sometimes faster than you can get them down on paper. You’re in the middle, a little past the half-way point. The glamour has faded, the magic has gone, your back hurts from all the typing, your family, friends and random email acquaintances have gone from being encouraging or at least accepting to now complaining that they never see you any more—-and that even when they do you’re preoccupied and no fun. You don’t know why you started your novel, you no longer remember why you imagined that anyone would want to read it, and you’re pretty sure that even if you finish it it won’t have been worth the time or energy and every time you stop long enough to compare it to the thing that you had in your head when you began—-a glittering, brilliant, wonderful novel, in which every word spits fire and burns, a book as good or better than the best book you ever read—-it falls so painfully short that you’re pretty sure that it would be a mercy simply to delete the whole thing.

Welcome to the club.

Today, Google is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street with a special Big Bird logo in the US. But, in the UK, Google is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit, the main characters in a series of beautiful British animated films. The pair appear on Google’s homepage with Wallace looking through a magnifying glass, which forms an “o” and Gromit drinking a cup of tea while holding a spanner, which forms the “l” in Google. (via The Guardian)

(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To | Weezer

Nothing says a clean break up like running out of room on the first Post-It note and having to leave a second one. Especially when the second one just emphasizes how much the dog always hated her.

How To Use An Aprostrophe by Matthew Inman

The go-to guide for the grammatically challenged. Click through for the entire list.

Insert Coin is an interesting animated short film by vurup.

“My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?” - Mitch Hedberg

Second day in. Woo! I’m still alive, thanks to Halloween candy and lots of water. But, that’s besides the point. Today, November 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 PM, I’ve written 4,102 words, and, once again, I plan to write more over the night. Luckily, I get a day off from school tomorrow, so that should give me a lot of time to advance my word count.

I gained two followers from yesterday, which is awesome, since my follower count is now at 777. But that’s still not 800, so no prologue for you! If you’re interested in reading the first major section of my novel (it’s either Chapter 1, or the Prologue), tell your Tumblr friends to follow me. Yes, this is self-promotion and whoring myself out, but you’re neglecting the fact that I don’t care.

I had a huge scene in the novel where the question of who says who is a nerd and who isn’t is asked, and I think personally it’s a great part of the story that came out of nowhere. But that’s the fun of NaNoWriMo; writing things that end up being fairly good, but totally unexpected.

Tomorrow starts Day 3. Good luck to my fellow Wrimos out there!