It took until nearly 7pm at night before the writing even started. There was no family emergency. There was no other thing going on. For some reason, I simply could not get the motivation to write. Instead, I went about the day as though writing was not a priority. Eventually, as the time slipped away, … Continue reading Some Days Are Harder…
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Making Sense Of Size
I started to have an interesting conversation with my wife the other day. At one time, the pair of us were heavily into music. We’d go to concerts at innumerable places, from coffee houses to bookstores to stadiums. We spent a ton of money on CDs and such. Although there were some areas of our … Continue reading Making Sense Of Size
Incentive
Yay me. That’s right, another post boating about the progress I’ve been making at sustaining another run at 1,000 words per day. But this is only partly about that. This is a post about a trick that’s been helping me get to that goal each day. Incentives. Writing by itself is a fulfilling task. One … Continue reading Incentive
There’s Only Today
The streak stands at 18 days as of the writing of this. That’s 18 straight days of writing. It’s not the longest I’ve had since 2018, but it is notable. Within that, 16 days straight were spent building back up my fiction writing, and the last 7 of those days were over 1,000 words each. … Continue reading There’s Only Today
Writing the Excuses 5 – The Other Excuses
In keeping with the suggestion I made for myself in my post, “In The Numbers”, I am going to go over the 4 excuses that Dean Wesley Smith listed in his own article that inspired the aforementioned post. In this post, I’ll go over some extra stuff, excuses that I use as Dean says: “And … Continue reading Writing the Excuses 5 – The Other Excuses