Sometimes I feel like I spin my wheels when I write promotional articles for work. I research, I write, and I feel like the writing is… junk. Only, then it gets approved by all parties needing to approve it, and only rarely do I have any significant changes to make. It’s at that point, whenContinue reading “On Writing That’s Fun”
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On 2009’s Goals
A number of my friends have posted on their blogs their writing goals for the coming year. A sensible thing, that — it lends itself to measurement and accountability. 🙂 Last year, I set a goal — “In 2007 I earned more from writing than I did in 2006. My goal for 2008 is toContinue reading “On 2009’s Goals”
On Ghost Towns
The office was a ghost town. Tumbleweeds could be seen rolling through the cubicle maze. Somewhere in the distance, a harmonica twittered. How much of the building was closed today? I couldn’t begin to guess. A good two-thirds of the company seemed to be gone today. The parking lot was deserted. People were getting doneContinue reading “On Ghost Towns”
On Unusable Ideas
It happens to every writer. They get an idea, a really cool idea, an idea that consumes their world for days on end… Only it’s an idea that they can’t possibly use. There’s an idea, an idea that’s been nagging at me for months. I can’t use it. For that matter, no one can. TheContinue reading “On Unusable Ideas”
On Tuesday
A colleague asked me at work today how things were going for me. I sighed. “I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday,” I said in reply. Summed it up, really. The week’s not as bad as that. Really, it’s not. I’ve just had a lot on my plate this week, and I’ll have a lot onContinue reading “On Tuesday”
On Saturday Randomness
At long last, it’s snowing. I looks nice, from out the office window. I’ve installed new fonts. I even got them to work on my Ubuntu install. Yes, I installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago, on a slave hard drive I wasn’t doing anything with. I’m not doing anything with Ubuntu, except to play Sudoku.Continue reading “On Saturday Randomness”
On Writing Like The Wind
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 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 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 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”