Just say no/quick links

Just a general fyi, and for once, hopefully I can stick to it, starting right now. I cannot possibly go out as much as I have been and still pretend to be a writer. Just not possible. So in the interest of making a dent in the $85,000 in student loans I still owe and just generally feeling good about myself, I'm going to be staying in as much as possible this summer to attempt to kickstart this writing thing. I know my "big book" may never happen, and I'm okay with that. I kindof expect it might never get off the ground but I'll truly despise myself if I don't try. But before I can even think about it, and stop telling people I'm writing a book and feel like an idiot when they ask what my mythical book's about, I have a bunch of other projects and articles that need completing. It's to the point that I could spend every night and weekends on this stuff and still not feel "caught up" so in an attempt to do something about it, even as I attempt to acquire more freelance gigs, I am gonna have to severely limit my outings. Please don't be offended if I can't go out as much as I once did, but I'm 30 and need to grow up sometime. It's one of the hardest things for me to do, to say no, but I feel infinitely better when I actually turn something in or make a little progress. I guess it's good that there feels like an overwhelming amount of work, but I need to find some way to balance it so I can actually be working on the projects I want to be, rather than the ones I'm just so-so about. But instead of just blathering here about writing/editing, I'm trying to actually do some of it. I have many things I want to accomplish before I head off for a weekend in Costa Rica at the end of this month, so hopefully I'll be able to do everything, or at least come damn close, and then maybe even sell my work, fancy that. Results TK.

A few quick links:

Why You're Still Single - it's a book and a website

Joan Kelly's (The Pleasure's All Mine) new blog, Sexblurt

A penis museum (via Maccers)

Sex blogs galore (which are part of my reasoning that in this day and age, Robert Steinbuch is not necessarily the reasonable person in that case - with people clamoring to share every detail of their sex life, in certain communities that is seen as perfectly acceptable)

Win a copy of M.J. Rose's sexy new novel Lying in Bed at The Happy Booker

A Write-a-Thon!

Vidocity

Sober hipsters