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NaNoWriMo

Or… Why I Am Participating in NaNoWriMo, But Not Really NaNoWriMo is upon us! National Novel Writing Month is knocking on the door. It’s a time of year when us writers go bat-shit crazy gearing up to write a novel in one month (50,000 words in a month or 1,667 words a day). As I follow…
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What Happened to Me?

It’s almost halfway through October and I am finding the urge to write difficult to manifest. I’ve all but fallen from the wagon that was my writing torrent this year, struggling to even open my notebook or my computer. It’s happened on a few random occasions in the last week, although the words are no…
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Temper, Temper

Somewhere between the 10th successive phone call and discussions on my upcoming vacation, I lost my temper. It is not a reaction that I am proud of. It is not a reaction that I indulge in with any regularity. I may rant, I might complain, but I seldom lose my temper. Now, I am hitting…
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Reduction

The other night, I did something that I didn’t believe myself capable of doing. It was a day after another action of similar intent. What did I do? I deleted four apps from my phone. Apps that I opened and used every day. Games, to be specific. Much like clearing space on the phone, taking…
