There are structures and systems of organisation that you sometimes need in place before creativity can bloom. I am always trying to do that inbetween creating. It can be as simple as organising wires, as having some kind of plan for the day; some kind of idea for what direction you want to go in.… Read More Saturday
It’s been a weird year. For not having succumbed to Covid, I feel like I have had every allergy and leaky body part it is possible to have without bits dropping off. Great way to break into a new post, right? When you haven’t posted in a while, but hey, them are the breaks. My… Read More Friday
This interview with Roger Miller was a very fun experience.
I try not to get derailed by what is going on in the world, but sometimes it slams into you and leaves you reeling. Who would have thought that what happened today was possible? I am guilty myself of thinking that there was a lot of empty rhetoric there. I had them pegged as hateful… Read More Wednesday
My wife was suffering from toothache last night. It is one of those unique pains that it is hard to tamp down even with pain killers. She gargled salt water and ACD. We tried all kinds of things. It was getting late, and in order for us both not to be toast the next day… Read More Tuesday
Cramming so much into a night. Writing my ass off. Some people will occasionally ask me how I write so much, and the answer is simple — I sit down and I hammer the keyboard in every spare moment. I have created many frameworks that I can drop into and just play with my literary… Read More Monday
I spent a chunk of the day digging through and trying to decipher the story of my ancestors. It was a big thing back in the day to have a grandfather and his kids and his grandkids all with the same damned name. It makes the whole process really painful, and jesus, I have to… Read More Sunday
Today changed shape rapidly under the unique pressures of a possible COVID contact. It is the new normal, that the possibilities of the week can be entirely upended and reframed by a single careless act. Sometimes I pick up that map and look at the world describes and I find myself deep into the truth… Read More Saturday
Activities that you love are not always activities that you can be consistent with, try as you may. My creative ambitions at the start of the year are as shiny as new year resolutions, but that does not mean that they will be held too. I have done a lot today, but today is one… Read More Friday
In and out, that is how the tides of writing go. I like to write things that are loose and unshackled by the specificity of a project, but sometimes those projects grab hold of you with a very specific gravity. I set up places for both types of writing and this place happens to be… Read More Sunday