This is Why Gameboys Were Banned in 1998.

People of the blogosphere, I have made an observation.

Kids have a past time that involves beating a dead horse with another dead horse stuffed with the garlicky flavored corpse of a third, just-as-dead horse.

I am, of course, talking about Frozen.

Yoboseyo, 2014!

"I'm making a blog.
Simplifying my resolution comes down to that. I am here, figuring out this bloggy software, trying to do what I've never done before: finish something... 

...My resolution is not to learn to cook, or to lose weight (all things I spent last year doing, with mild success, and will continue to do this year) but to finish Halfer. I spent 4 years in school learning the skill and discipline I need to make this happen, and I hope by the end of December 2013 I will have something to start shopping to agents. 

This blog is called Writerlust because that is what I have: a desire to write, really, and no direction. Maybe if I put everything I do this year on display for everyone to see, it'll guilt me into trying to actually get something done.

So here goes nothing."

Joke's on me I guess, right guys?

It's almost 2014. It'll actually be 2014 for me before it is for the most of you, isn't that crazy? 

Taking a Necessary Break - a Review

I've reached a point in my editing where I'm almost done with a first pass-through, and really I just want to get writing again.

I think that's really exciting for me, because it's been so rare the past few years where I've actively wanted to write, and not just felt like I should because I hadn't in a while. I have ideas I'm excited to get down on the page and it's killing me that I made this dumb rule. I'm actually thinking about discarding the dumb rule - I'm editing stuff at this point that is going to change completely once I start fixing the things in the beginning.

But I've gotten so much done with it that I decided to take a day off. I was planning on going to to edit yesterday night, but a Facebook message completely derailed any plans that I had. I ended up heading out with a college friend to a trivia night at a local brewery - a brewery I didn't even know existed until a few months ago, and had never been to.

Newburgh Brewing Company is definitely one of the coolest places in my relatively inconsequential area. I wish all my friends lived closer so we could go there on a regular basis...the great big taproom has a dozen heavy wooden tables, ping-pong, Donkey Kong, and a stack of board games in the corner that would be perfect for pulling out and nursing a beer over. I don't even like beer that much - any other time I've been given it it's been a lot of sipping and making funny faces like a dog licking a lime. But I ended up drinking an entire glass of their riverBREW Crown Maple Irish Red, sampling the Chile Lime Stout (which burned like chili chocolate and is one of the weirdest/coolest things I've ever consumed) and tried a sip of my friends Brown Ale. Honestly I wish I had had more cash on me, because the Brown Ale was delicious and I should have at least bought a growler of it. I'm disappointed I didn't. I might go back soon and get one anyway. I've never been this into beer before.