I listened to the inauguration ceremony on the radio and I'll say one thing about Governor Terminator, he's got a heck of speech writer.

It makes me wonder why all the candidates running for public office can't have good speech writers. Aren't their enough unemployed people in the country to choose from?

I am the laziest person I know. I didn't write on Friday or Saturday, and today is my chance to get caught up on my novel and I don't want to do it.

I wrote enough tonight to cover Friday's word count, and I know if I just keep writing till I get sleep I'll be all caught for Sunday's word count. The problem is I just don't want to do it.

I don't know why either. It's not like I don't know what I'm going to write about because I do. And it's not like I'm having trouble writing either, because getting the word count for Friday earlier this evening was easy.

I just have such a desire to not write. It's crazy too, because I was just telling myself this morning that I've achieved my goal of being a writer, if a writer is someone who writes almost every day and produces stories. I've done that.

Now my new goal is to be a paid writer, which is a whole new way of writing and a whole new process. My goal has always been to be a paid writer, but being paid for writing is an entirely different proposition than being just a "writer" I've decided. I needed to become a writer first, before I could tackle being a "paid writer".

My new writing book gave me the inspiration. The book plainly and simply states that you cannot call yourself a writer, unless you write and produce product. It doesn't give define the quality of the product you produce, because that's not the point if you're a writer. A writer is simply a person who writes regularly everyday.

My chapter 5 is 11 pages. I don't want to switch chapters yet, but that's a ton of pages for a chapter.

My characters are running away from outline, but I guess that's okay. It happens sometimes.

I went to see the movie Billabong Odyssey today.

"The feature film release "Billabong Odyssey" documents the dramatic life-or-death adventures of a team of surfer/explorers who search the seven seas on the quest to find and ride the biggest wave on the planet."

It was pretty cool to see these huge waves being surfed, but I wonder what surf purists think about being towed out to a wave instead of paddling out.

Whenever I see surf movie, I feel like I'm honouring my Hawaii home roots since I grew up watching surf movies, and thinking surfers, skateboarders and windsurfers were like so rad and cool!

The movie website has videos you can watch, which are small bits of the movie.