I have to wonder why J.K. Rowling decided to reveal the little tid-bit that Dumbledore is gay to a packed audience at Carnegie Hall.  As if the radical Christian right isn’t already having a field day trying to ban the books under the premise that it promotes the unholy (in their opinion) practice of witchcraft, now she’s throwing homosexuality onto that fire.  The question is why?  To sell more books?  Get bigger and badder protesters?  Have more of your reading faithful hunted down and harassed?  Has she become the Britney Spears of the literary world, dropping character bombs to get the press to pay attention to her?

The question that lead to The Outing of Albus Dumbledore, as it will decidedly be known henceforth in the annals of historical text, was “Does Dumbledore find true love?” Newsflash!  Dumbledore is dead.  J.K. Rowling herself made a point of making Dumbledore HIMSELF say that in the last book.  So how does one find true love in the afterlife?  Perhaps by being reunited with their true love… who in this case happened to duel with them while on earth.

I find this sort of thing to be, quite literally, bullshit.  Had she truly wanted Dumbledore to be a homosexual character then she should have worked it into the books.  I’m not talking about a graphic love scene, but some sort of chapter that would have defined him as what she intended if in fact that was it.  She failed to do that, which means that irregardless of how many books she sells, she has failed as a writer.

With all of that in mind… NaNoWriMo is coming up.  I haven’t decided if I’m going to partake in it this year, and considering I only made it halfway last year, maybe that’s a good thing.  NaBloPoMo, while it seems to have died, wouldn’t even really be challenging.  I’ve posted months straight everyday already.

However, with recent developments, my Passion Project has indeed a hard deadline for a finished product of December 2008.  While I know it sounds like awhile away, it actually means August of 2008 to allow for editing and production time… and considering that I’ve been working on it since early 2005… at my current pace I won’t be done until 2009.  So that’s what November is going to see in place of a traditional NaNoWriMo attempt.  I’ll be working on that instead.

Anyone else going to do NaNoWriMo this year?