Post weekend blues

Hello to all my six blog readers! :)

It's Monday again which basically spells the beginning of another mundane week for me. On the agenda this week is writing a few more chapters of my blovel, meeting up with an old friend for dinner, traveling to the big city possibly for another round of interviews and maybe staying over for a friend's son's christening and/ or chaperoning my sister for a concert... not so bad actually. What plans do you guys have? Anything interesting?

I've managed to ignore this space for 5 whole days without suffering from an iota of guilt, a shitty thing to do in the infancy stages of an anonymous blog. I'm sure my blog is suffering from serious inferiority complex by now because not only do I not want to acknowledge its presence in my real life but I've also started giving it second preference over my blovel. As for the blovel it seems to be shaping up well (I think!). I've tried to get a couple reactions from friends without giving them the link to the blovel because, you know, its connected to this blog and I might have written/ plan to write about them in the near future and I sure as hell don't want to complicate matters. They seemed to like it which makes me wonder why no one seems to be leaving any comments on the chapters/ posts. At the cost of being penalized by the blovel police I've left the comments option on for my individual chapters and thanks to Blogger's updated capabilities I can now monitor traffic on my blovel site. What this basically means is that I do have visitors on the site but no one seems to want to share their feedback with me. So not cool! :(

There's this other thing that's really pissing me off these days and it has something to do with my country's current state of affairs. I'm hesitant to write about it because then you will obviously know which country I belong to and that will put my whole anonymous blogger idea in a funk. Decisions, decisions...

Wanna be tapping my feet not the keyboard yo!

Few things are more pissing off than having to work when almost everyone you know has the day off. Yeah thats me right now... Pissed off and bitter and bugged! I'm sitting in my little cabin with the dark windows behind me and frosted glass all around, typing away furiously trying to correct the grammar and language on some official text while sneaking glances at some of your blogs and cursing under my breath every 5 seconds.

If I had the day off today right about now I'd probably be driving my car super fast on an empty road while listening to 'Beggin' by Madcon, or dressing up to go out with my sister so we could both be fabulous together hitting the stores for some (window) shopping, or most likely just be lolling in bed with the not-so-interesting book I'm reading right now. The one thing I definitely wouldn't be doing is sitting in a little dungeon hoping to get out :(

On the upside I've now completed two whole chapters of my very first blovel. Yes the same one I still don't have a home for. Maybe I should just create another blog for it but generating traffic would be a huge task. And while having others read this blog isn't my number one priority (I lie ;), I'd definitely want feedback and encouragement for the blovel. When I do put it up somewhere and you do read it you will realize it isn't as crappy as this blog because fact is, in fact, stranger than fiction :D No but seriously I put in a lot of effort in writing the blovel whereas this blog is just a place for me to scribble my thoughts.

Better get back to work. Oh and if you're a fan of Step Up 3D (like me) then watch this video - Beggin - Battle of Gwai

Blovel but no spot...

Yes thats an actual word and unfortunately I didn't invent it. Although I might have thought of the concept way before anyone ever thought of blog novels as the revolutionary platform for budding writers to showcase their talent without struggling to get published. How awesome is that?! To be able to share your stories with people from all over the world... I think it's pretty fab!

A little bit of googling led me to Blovelspot, some guy's brain-child where bloggers/ writers can post their blovels. He's worked out a very nifty format so that the readers' experience is almost like that of reading a book. (Minus the reading in bed.. the only way I like to read). The other cool thing about Blovelspot is the set of rules - Each blovel should wrap up in 40 posts and once you post, you can't go back and change the post/ chapter. I read a few blovels and was really impressed by the stories woven by some of the writers. Inspired, I quickly signed up, hoping to start my very own blovel and share my novel (haha!) story with the world.

It has now been a little over a week and I haven't yet received my registration email yet. Neither can I login to the site, nor can I communicate with the Admin to report the issue :( In fact I've even tried to follow (stalk) blovelspot on twitter and the last update on the handle was on 1st December 2009. Does anyone know whether this site is operative any more? If not then maybe there's an opportunity for someone to create a similar site. Are there any other blovel sites functional currently?

Also, can someone tell me how a blovel writer can safeguard his/her rights against plagiarism?