You have to clean out the cobwebs. You have to shovel the shit. You have to sit down and hammer the damned keys until you have something. I never had much of a thing for salesmen before – I never found them motivational or inspiring or a subject for much thought at all. It was… Read More Monday
I am what you might call knee deep in Nanowrimo, and I should probably more like hip-deep, but you know – it is what it is, as they say. I always challenge myself by writing more than one novel, because the idea is that I can bounce around between them. I have been doing a… Read More Saturday
I am always looking for interesting connections and coincidences – Burroughs built instruction manuals into his fiction … ways for seeing the world. Like watching a tv show where an agent is going under cover and getting Nazi tattoos while reading about social media platforms having problems with Nazis and not appearing like tyrants. And… Read More Sunday
I haven’t really done one of these for a second – some times I am focused on the writing, and sometimes I am focused on the process of writing, and want to unpack the whole thing for people. This week I have been world-building, and it involved a fair amount of research – it is… Read More Tuesday
It is interesting several different parts of a larger universe at the same time, because you drop a pebble in one pool and echoes in the magic mirror of another. You reach a point where stories start to suggest themselves, and ideas which have fallen through the cracks before bubble to the surface. I think… Read More Saturday
I probably have to make my piece with the fact that although regularity is the aim, there are some difficulties in achieving the goal when I have competing goals that demand more attention. They are all pulling in the same direction, so it’s not all bad. I was reading that journaling is a pretty useful… Read More Wednesday
It is interesting to me how much damned time with my writing and creative works is dedicated to administration. Some of this has been created by the fact that I write so damned much, have so many projects in a state of non-completion, and am intent to actually bring them home. Ambition is also codified… Read More Friday
The weekend was defined by welcoming a new cat to the house. A tiny little bundle of fur and temporary fury called Miracle, who is a beautiful tortoise-shell. Scared cats are an interesting thing to deal with, and they do pretty much always follow this pattern of establishing and defending their territory. Slowly scenting the… Read More Monday
It’s the morning – and I am awake a hell of a lot earlier than I intended to be. Well, partly true. I knew I had to be awake, but my Saturday morning sleep is kind of the necessary energy recoup point of my week. I tend to be low energy most of the week… Read More Saturday
Some weeks you burn through. And you feel in some ways you get little done you were aiming for. I am not sure about this week, because there were some targets met, but there were a few missed. It seems to split evenly between admin and site creation and actual writing at the moment. What… Read More Friday