More Rocks, Some Actual Content, and April Words

This is probably my least favorite of the videos. It's also the shortest. I realize none of this is a good advertisement to watch it unless you're curious why I like it less than the others. But I figured I might as well put it up since it's the last of the frolicking-in-the-park videos.

Also, clearly I didn't feel like writing anything yesterday (though I went back to add friends of the week if those friends thought I'd shafted them). But I do have breaking news in the world of Cherie. In April I wrote 9792 words which is better than February and March. Overall my story is currently 143,734 words which, for anyone who doesn't know, is INSANE! That's two novels! Except that it's not! AAAHAHHH!! And it's still not finished. HOWEVER, that's not as bad (and hopefully never will be) as my last draft which was 543,741 words which could be 5-9 novels (the average novel being 60,000-100,000 words). This, for me, is the hardest part of writing. Maybe I'm a bit too hung up on it. I've always wished books had their word count in the front so I knew if this was as bad as I think it is. The artist in me says I should go on until it ends naturally. The pragmatist says I should kill all my characters now and cover my losses... I'll probably end up doing something in between. And before anyone suggests it, yes I have considered dividing my book into several books but the current draft doesn't have anywhere I can divide it. I could probably go back and write it so it's two books but that would probably mean adding more storyline to make two coherent pieces.

Well, that's the end of that rant. I've also decided to start listing foods I don't like for possible food punishments and other things to give you all ideas of the type of punishment I was hoping for (i.e. one that would be fun for you to watch but not enriching to me in any way). That's right, I said watch. Any punishment where it's feasible I'll do a video blog. I'll still do the good, self-improving punishments but just to give you guys some other ideas here's my hated food of the week: Cooked tomatoes. I love fresh tomatoes but the cooked ones make me gag. So now you guys have eggplant parmesan and cooked tomatoes. You could also make me eat a spoonful of just about any condiment by itself. That would be pretty gross. (Barring hot sauce cause that probably would make me ill and sour cream because I actually really like sour cream). Also for any food punishment I'll spend at least $10 (since I might need a little more than $5 for the ingredients of eggplant parmesan and I can always use extra food. Even eggplant can be redeemed.) Also foods I don't like will probably be a short list but I'll try to think of other things as well.

I think that creating worse punishments than you guys came up with probably proves that I am, in fact, my own worst enemy.