So about that mystery assignment I spoke of last time: I’m auditioning for a writer’s slot at TVgasm. (The name is silly, but the recaps are hilarious.)

The audition process is basically a head-to-head competition against the other submitters. The powers that be must have liked me, because I got a first-round bye. Now, I’m counting on your help to get past Round 2.

Head over to this page and vote for my recap of Wife Swap! You have to sign up for a message board account, but you love me that much, don’t you? I thought so. Now get to it!

From the lack of recent posts, you might conclude that I’m not doing much writing lately. You’d be wrong. It’s OK, we all make mistakes. I forgive you.

So I’m not cranking out thousands of words a day (I’m lucky if I get an hour a day to spend at it), but I am actually working. On projects. How about them italics? I rewrote a scene of a short story this morning, I have a feel-good family piece in the edit queue after that one’s done, and somewhere in there I’ll be getting back to the novel.

For awhile, I was waking up in the morning thinking “I have to do these writing prompts first thing so I can get warmed up.” And doing the prompts. And nothing else.

Before the writing prompts, it was “I have to write another blog post so I can attract legions of loyal fans who hang on my every word.”

Those things are all well and good, of course, but I have to write before I can justify writing about writing.

Oh, and I also have a special assignment for tonight. I should have more news about that within the week. Don’t touch that dial.

While you’re waiting — go follow copyhacker on Twitter, and send in some fugly web copy!