TV: "Gene Simmons: Family Values"

Okay, I'm procrastinating. I admit it!

So, I was just looking at the TV Guide website to see what's on tonight. There is a 4-hour marathon of "Gene Simmons: Family Vales" episodes starting in an hour. I'm so happy. I'm totally addicted to this show, even though I've never listened to a KISS song in my life. It's just amazing how "normal" they are compared to the Osbournes.

So, I guess if I'm good, I would spend the next hour working on my assignment, and then reward myself with some TV. But see, that would necessitate that I actually can exercise some self-control and concentrate. Yeah, that's not going to happen. I'll try, but I'm not promising much. Knowing me, and I do, I'll spend most of the next hour looking for music. But maybe, just maybe, I'll eek out another page.

Writing and Intimidation

Trying to write an assignment for a writing class. I'm struggling. I'm supposed to be writing from the antagonist's POV and I can't get in her head. I know my protagonist. I can get in her head. I can write her voice. But this antagonist...ugh! Now I know why this is supposedly the most difficult assignment of the semester. I'm also struggling with whether to write this piece in first or third person POV. When I write from the protagonist's POV, I work from first person. But with the antagonist I definitely don't feel comfortable in the first with her (I don't like her head), but the third feels a bit too distant. Still third POV is probably the best of the two. Maybe I should just take the middle ground and do second POV. Yeah, that would work!

And it doesn't help that I can't find the right mood music. Nothing is working. I've even wasted time looking on iTunes and Myspace for something new to buy; and NOTHING. Not feeling any of it.

On the upside, I might actually have this assignment done tonight. Yep, maybe I won't be freaking out tomorrow morning before class trying to get it all done. I'd love to be done tonight. Already a page in. I only need a minimum of 3, even though I'd like to do more. And I swear, I am not changing stories and characters again at 11PM like last week. That was just too stressful.

Although, I have to say, that piece turned out to be better than I thought it was. Just proves again that I do my best work when I procrastinate. Not that I should be reveling in that fact. But the piece did get me one of the best compliments I've ever received about my writing: my writing "intimidates" people. YEAH! You'd have to know me to know how perfect a compliment that is. I'm competitive as hell. Telling me I write well or I'm good, doesn't really get me. That kind of comment--my writing intimidates another writer (and she's someone who I think is one of the better writers in the class)--is perfect. So, I'm definitely riding that high.

Okay, with that praise in mind, I should get back to my assignment or at least to my music search.