Today, I must be one with my keyboard. I must write like the wind. Deadlines. They are fun things. And they make such wonderful sounds as they fly by. 😉 First up. Stephen King.
On Getting Home From Work
Most days, getting to and from work is not a problem. Oh, I might miss the connection from subway to light rail by the merest of seconds (like yesterday, where I was five seconds late to get aboard the train), but for the most part, things go smoothly. Except when they don’t. This evening wasContinue reading “On Getting Home From Work”
On the Stairwell Light
In the stairwell that leads upstairs there are two lights, one at the bottom and one at the top. Top and bottom both have lightswitches. The lightswitch at the top is older, and it mades a loud clank! when it’s thrown. The lightswitch at the bottom is newer and, thus, quieter. About a year ago,Continue reading “On the Stairwell Light”
On Structuring Acts
Last night, after a long day of writing and revising an outline, I printed off the work’s status quo and shoved it in my briefcase/bag-thing. It takes about an hour to get to work by subway and train, and there’s time that’s well spent doing something productive. 🙂 As I looked at what I had,Continue reading “On Structuring Acts”
On Putting Words on the Page
I spent the afternoon and evening working on a novel outline. As I am wont to tell people, I need outlines. I flail otherwise. About the longest I can write without an outline is 4k. That 4k is about all I can keep in my head, like an object. Anything longer, and I need atContinue reading “On Putting Words on the Page”
On the Week In Review
My grandmother is down for her second nap of the day. It’s not even 1:30 in the afternoon. She’s been sleeping more of late. She’s also been keeping odd hours, and her perception of light and dark seems to be non-existent. The new television remotes confuse her. There’s one for the television, and one forContinue reading “On the Week In Review”
On Remembering George Harrison
An e-mail yesterday reminded me that, seven years ago today, George Harrison passed away. I wrote to a friend of mine at the time: My favorite Beatle depends as much upon what day of the week it is as it does upon my mood for that day. Some days my Beatles-sense revolves wholly around John,Continue reading “On Remembering George Harrison”
On the Day After Thanksgiving
If you are Black Friday shopping, do be careful. 🙂 I’ve had to disable the “Let It Snow” plugin for the blog. That plug-in created gently falling snow. It was pretty. It was hypnotic. It also caused problems for people browsing with Internet Explorer. (And really, if you’re using IE, why don’t you upgrade toContinue reading “On the Day After Thanksgiving”
On Fireworks
For the neighbors, who live in the house vaguely across the street, every holiday is an occasion to set off fireworks. They had a dozen cars in their yard or on the street this afternoon. It’s not a large house they have, and I imagine they had the sort of loud, boisterous Thanksgiving feast thatContinue reading “On Fireworks”
On Fried Brain Mush
I wrote a lot at work on Monday. I wrote a lot yesterday. I wrote even more than that today. My brain feels like mush. That’s been fried. Fortunately, tomorrow I can sleep in. Take a nap, even. I might even write the four-hundred word article on a Stephen King novel I’ve been assigned. ThatContinue reading “On Fried Brain Mush”