I am a fucking god. There is a reason people come to me with Excel problems at work. It’s because I know how to use it. And I use it very well. Today, on the train, I knew. Things were either going to go extremely right, or they would go horribly wrong. We were wellContinue reading “On Achieving Victory”
Category Archives: Work
On the Latest Interview
I recently conducted via e-mail an interview with Tony Lee, the writer of IDW Publishing’s upcoming Doctor Who monthly comic book series. Lee is no stranger to Doctor Who. He wrote the six-issue series The Forgotten last year, and he has the special The Time Machination coming up later this month. He’s also written forContinue reading “On the Latest Interview”
On General Obliviousness
At work yesterday, two colleagues were talking loudly. I had my headphones on. I was writing marketing copy and studying pictures of Slave Leia outfits (work related, honest!). I heard, or I thought I heard, one of my colleagues say, “This is how The Stand began.” Naturally, I was curious. I dropped my headphones. “TheContinue reading “On General Obliviousness”
On Writing That’s Fun
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”
On Missing Connections
The morning’s commute was an exercise in missed connections. The subway train pulled out just as I reached the platform. Making the connection from the subway to the light rail can be the matter of moments. Up one escalator, up another escalator, across the street, down a block and a half, across a four-lane highway,Continue reading “On Missing Connections”
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”
On That Feeling of Relief
I poured myself a cup of coffee this morning. I stirred in some sugar. I poured in a dollop of milk. And I had this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I sent three publications to press on Thursday and Friday at the office. And I had this gut feeling that I’d gottenContinue reading “On That Feeling of Relief”
On Writing Macros At Work
For a variety of reasons, I needed to talk to a colleague of mine at work today. He’d needed a document from me yesterday, and I wanted to check and see if that was something that he was going to need on a monthly basis going forward. Never hurts to check, right? Well, in theContinue reading “On Writing Macros At Work”
On Writing to Music
I can’t speak for other writers, but speaking for this writer, I like to write while listening to music. There’s something about having music flowing around me that makes the words flow. Some writers, I’ve heard, like to write to soundtracks or classical music. I like to write to jazz. I don’t have a largeContinue reading “On Writing to Music”
On More Bloggery Thinking
Two weeks ago I put together a WordPress theme for a possible work blog. It’s nothing great — it’s a free CSS template, married to some php code I pulled together, plus some CSS jiggery-pokery &mdsh; and as a tech demo it does pretty much what I wanted it to: it showed that a visionContinue reading “On More Bloggery Thinking”