A desperate bid to rediscover creativity
Work, work, work. The daily grind. Life in the trenches.
Bit by bit I'm inching closer to completing edits on my novelette. Just 20 MS pages left to go. And then after that, there are all the other things for me to get started on. I really need an extra day in the week. Preferably it would be one where I could just write.… Continue reading More progress
We had a bit of a family medical emergency here and so my attention has been elsewhere lately. Also been very much enjoying Leviathan Wakes. I'm right in the heart of it now, and it's pushed aside some of my other reading.
So it was a crazy weekend around here. And I mades some progress in editing, but not much. I also had a post I started to draft on Walter White and Frank Underwood, but life doesn't much care for my plans. In place of any other update, here's a snippet from an older work. “Higher.… Continue reading Snippet in place of an update
My oldest daughter figured out the Easter Bunny wasn't real this Easter. We put their initials on the girls' eggs using stickers and my daughter spotted one of those stickers stuck accidentally to my wife's shirt. She asked about it and my wife came up with some excuse. But it started the wheels turning. The… Continue reading A bit of the magic is gone
Breaking the chain of updates due to unforeseen events; one sick kid and one sick dog. Too tired and it's too late to put any coherent thinking together tonight. Feels like a defeat. Going to read a bit of On Writing before falling asleep.
It's a hell of a thing finding out through Twitter, or any social media, that a friend's in a life-threatening battle with a lung-infection. It's too early for me to start losing friends. At any age I'm sure I wouldn't be ready. That my friend is my age and has two kids the same age… Continue reading Mortality
What's this? Oh, yes, right, I have a blog and I've been ignoring it in a huge way. I've also been doing very little writing since early August. No excuse other than pure laziness. I am working on a comeback.
Not that it's in anyway binding, but this is a fun way for the rest of the world to participate on November 4:http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/
About ten minutes after sitting down at my desk this morning I received a call from my friend on the regional police force asking me a very important question: "How'd you like to come have free alcohol?" Never one to shirk my civic duty, I said, "Hell yes." The police needed test subjects to come… Continue reading Performing my civic duties
So the LHC didn't destroy the world. Guess that means we all have to go back to work or school tomorrow (or in some people's case more muffin baking, napping, and clashing with cats).
Dispatches from Obscurity 